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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. Who are the boy's doctors?

2. After listening to the doctors silently, what does Oberon finally shout out from across the table?

3. Why does Titania refuse to go to the room in which her son is having a procedure on his hip?

4. What do they call the boy's special blanket?

5. What does Titania think is proof she loves her son more than Oberon?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Alice and the doctors see Titania and Oberon through the glamour filter?

2. How does Titania feel about the appearance of the hospital and its staff? What does she say to Alice about this?

3. Who are Titania and Oberon? Why are they in the hospital?

4. Describe the first morning the baby boy is with Titania. How do her feelings about him change?

5. Why did Oberon bring the boy to Titania in the first place? How did she feel about this gift at first?

6. How does Alice respond when Titania and Oberon begin to argue about the fact that Titania does not want to go in her son's room to see him after his procedure?

7. What is Beastie? Describe Beastie physically.

8. Who is Alice? What does Titania complain to Alice about regarding the hospital?

9. Describe Titania during their first conversation with Dr. Blork and Dr. Beadle. Describe Oberon.

10. What is Titania's reason for not being in her son's room after he wakes from his procedure? What does Oberon think of this excuse?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Away from the main character, examine the way the author uses the other characters in the book. When does he introduce and take them away from the story? What effect does it have on the story?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss elements of the narrative structure: Exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements in "A Tiny Feast" make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the story's themes?

Essay Topic 3

Choose a character and discuss their role in creating conflict in the book.

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