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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 does Rebecca admit to Edith in Part II, Chapter 7?

2. What does Edith ask the head of her department in Part II, Chapter 6?

3. How old is Maurice's son during the second interlude?

4. According to Maurice in the second interlude, what is the name given to the room where the rejected stories are stored?

5. What is the name of the literary magazine started by Maurice?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What surprising news does Maurice have in Part II, Chapter 6?

3. Discuss Maurice's thoughts regarding Erich, as recounted to Theo in Part III, Chapter 3.

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

5. According to Maurice in the second interlude, how did he write The Breach and The Broken Ones?

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

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

8. Discuss Maurice's thoughts regarding Dash, as recounted to Theo in Part III, Chapter 3.

9. What has happened to Maurice in the time since the end of the second interlude?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Erich and Dash. How are they (and their fates) the same? How are they (and their fates) different? Why does each fall victim to Maurice?

Essay Topic 2

According to Dash, “[t]here can be no discussion of morality when it comes to art” (110). Does the novel support or refute this claim? Use evidence from the novel to support your argument.

Essay Topic 3

Analyze the author’s choice to tell this story by using alternating perspectives. How does viewing the action through the eyes of multiple narrators affect the story? How do the various timelines affect the story? How would the book be different if the story was told through just one perspective?

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