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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. Where does Newland go at the beginning of Chapter 23?

2. What is the content of a message Newland receives from May?

3. What does Newland discover during the honeymoon?

4. Who does Newland think of before he goes to sleep?

5. What does Newland tell May after the party?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Newland respond while traveling in Europe and receiving an invitation to visit Ellen at her home?

2. What does Ellen tell Newland and how do they decide to spend the day in Boston?

3. What two rumors about Julius Beaufort surface in Chapter 26?

4. What is the news that finally thwarts Newland and Ellen's ever being together?

5. What is Newland's reaction when Ellen tells him they cannot run away together?

6. What event occurs to alter Newland's Washington travel plans?

7. What topic of conversation do Newland and Ellen inevitably discuss?

8. What is the state of Newland and May's marriage and family twenty-five-years after Ellen returns to Europe?

9. How does Newland continue behavior that shows he is still obsessed with Ellen?

10. What is Mr. Riviere's opinion about Ellen returning to her husband?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Newland never break his engagement to May in order to be with Ellen? Is his sense of decorum too strong or is he perhaps afraid of what being with Ellen might actually be like? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

Explain the courtship, engagement and wedding rules of high society during the late Nineteenth Century. Which rule does Newland lobby to break and why?

Essay Topic 3

What does Newland consider his role to be as May's new husband? Why?

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