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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 was the name of the magician whose trick Hazel was trying to reproduce with the dead frog?

2. Who taught Jack to be a resurrection man?

3. What does Bernard do when Hazel shows him the advertisement for the anatomy demonstration?

4. What was Isabella doing after the show?

5. Who did Hazel bump into after her talk with Dr. Beecham III?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the lesson that Hazel thought the play was trying to preach?

2. In Chapter 8, Where did Hazel go with her mother? What did they do?

3. What was Hazel's plan to get back into anatomy classes? What was the result?

4. Why did Hazel want to stay behind when her mother and Percy left for Bath? How did she manage to stay behind?

5. In Chapter 17, Who did Hazel run into after her meeting with Dr. Beecham III

6. In Chapter 9, what does Jack spend a whole month's paycheck on? Who was it for and why did he buy it?

7. What were Davey and Munro doing in the kirkyard (graveyard) during the opening scene of the book? Why were they doing it?

8. Why did Hazel have to disguise herself in order to attend Anatomy class? How did she manage to do it?

9. What were the circumstances regarding Hazel's dismissal from anatomy classes?

10. What “performance” did Hazel want to see? How did she end up getting in?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay about whether you think Dr. Beecham will change his attitude after Hazel confronted him. Do you think he will continue kidnapping people and taking their limbs an organs without their permission and without caring if they live or die? Why or why do you not think he would change his ways?

Essay Topic 2

Dr. Beecham and Hazel were similar in many ways. There were both resourceful, ambitious, highly intelligent, and impacted personally by death. Beecham became obsessed with his personal immortality and became insensitive to the death of others. How was Hazel different from Beecham in this respect? Why do you think she refused immortality for herself?

Essay Topic 3

There are many instances of deception by several of the characters in Anatomy: A Love Story. Write an essay exploring how each character's instances of deception affected your judgment of that character.

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