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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sits at the top of the new Pilaster house?

2. What does Solly suggest to Hugh about Nora in Part 2, Chapter 2?

3. How does Augusta set up Nora at the ball?

4. What does Maisie learn of Hugh at the lawyer's office in Part 1, Chapter 5?

5. What does Hugh ask Maisie to do after the races in Part 1, Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. What secret is established in the Prologue?

2. What more does Hugh know about Peter's drowning in Part 1, Chapter 3, now that he has corresponded with Albert Cammel, the fourth boy that was swimming that day?

3. What kind of a character is Seth? Be sure to mention his business acumen and religious beliefs.

4. In Part 1, Chapter 2, how does Augusta continue to manipulate what happens at the bank concerning the naming of the Senior Partner?

5. What does Nora do wrong at the costume ball, and how does she get into the predicament in the first place?

6. What is the tale of Maisie and Danny, and what is its tie in to the boys at the school?

7. What information does Tonio bring to Hugh in Part 2, Chapter 2, and what does he tell him of Tonio's plans?

8. What has become of Maisie and her family by Part 2?

9. Why does Hugh go to the Greenbourne's for a job?

10. What does Micky do to Seth in Part 1, Chapter 5? Why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Maisie, Rachel and April.

Essay Topic 2

Why is the brothel a major setting of the novel? What really takes place there beyond the obvious sexual and gambling activities?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze the friendship between Micky and Edward from the beginning to the end of the story. How was the relationship one-sided? How did the relationship cost Edward a happy life?

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