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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 are Felix's professional ambitions?

2. What is the setting of Part One, Chapter Four?

3. What is the result of Smith's return to his farm in Part Two, Chapter Three?

4. Where does Felix run into a prostitute?

5. Where is Walter Smith from?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when an Indian refuses an order by Bilderbeck?

2. In Part Two, Chapter Six, what does Gabriel mistake gunfire for?

3. How does Gabriel end up injured?

4. What is Walter's experience in the army like in Part Two, Chapter Twelve?

5. Summarize what Gabriel reflects on since his honeymoon while aboard a ship from India to Africa.

6. What changes between Charis and Felix at the end of Part Two, Chapter Ten?

7. Describe Gabriel's recovery in Part Two, Chapter Eleven.

8. What happens with the biplane in Part Two, Chapter Twelve?

9. What happens in Part Two, Chapter Five when Gabriel's unit goes ashore?

10. Describe how Felix and Holland react differently to the discrimination they face because they are not in military service.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Boyd writes An Ice Cream War using shifting point of views. Describe Boyd's style in reference to point of view and analyze the effect of Boyd's use of a variety of point of views.

Essay Topic 2

What genre or genres can An Ice Cream War be classified as? Use examples from the text to support your thesis.

Essay Topic 3

In the beginning of the novel, Felix is a youth attempting to negotiate a difficult and awkward transition from adolescence to adulthood. By the end of the novel Felix is battle-scarred and world-weary.war. By the time Felix boards a ship to take him back to England, he has seen years of gruesome death, some even involving loved ones. Felix himself has also been forever physically altered or damaged. Through the course of the novel, Felix Cobb can be thought of as two characters in one. In an essay, conduct a character analysis of Felix Cobb that addresses these points.

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