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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 happens to Edith at the end of Part II, Chapter 8?

2. Maja is caught plagiarizing from what publication?

3. What is Arjan's profession?

4. Why does Maurice warn his son against violence in the second interlude?

5. What is the name of the editor who had rejected Maurice's previous novels, according to Edith in Part II, Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Theo Field and why does he write to Maurice? What does he tell Maurice?

2. Who is Daniel's mother? How does Maurice feel about fatherhood?

3. How does Maurice respond to Theo's letter in Part III, Chapter 1? Why?

4. What trouble does Daniel get into at school in the second interlude? How is the situation resolved?

5. Who is Nicholas Bray and what does he think of Maurice and Edith's work in Part II, Chapter 3?

6. What information about Maurice is contained in Dash Hardy's biography? How does he feel about this description?

7. What confrontation happens on Christmas? What makes Edith suspicious?

8. Explain how the present and past become muddled for Maurice in the first three chapters of Part III.

9. What happens to Edith at the end of Part II, Chapter 7?

10. What happens when Maurice and Edith meet Leona Alwin in Part II, Chapter 3?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the characters of Oskar and Alysse and analyze the effects each has on both Erich and the plot as a whole.

Essay Topic 2

The second interlude is titled “The Threatened Animal.” Discuss how this title applies to the characters present in the second interlude and how the title reflects the novel’s plot and conflicts.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the many people integral to Maurice’s life: Edith, Daniel, Erich, and Dash. Does he truly love any of them? If so, whom? What is the nature of this love? What point do you think the author is trying to make about love?

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