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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 is Holly from?

2. When does James' trial begin?

3. What does Sophie notice all the benches in Court Two of the Old Bailey are made from?

4. What does Kate buy a girl who sleeps in a sleeping bag in a doorway on the Strand?

5. In Chapter 14, who did Sophie wait with in the queue for the public gallery?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does James say when Sophie tells him that if they are going to make their marriage work, the affair has to be completely over?

2. How does Holly meet Alison, and what is Alison like?

3. In Chapter 13, how is Olivia described when she takes the stand?

4. In Chapter 5, what case is Kate reviewing?

5. How did the Whitehouses spend their time after James was first elected?

6. Who is Kate's clerk, and what does she know about him?

7. How do Holly and Sophie meet, and what is there relationship like?

8. Who is Chris Clarke?

9. Who intercepts James as he prepares to cross Millbank in Chapter 6 and why?

10. In Chapter 6, how does James spend time with Tom early in the morning?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

After Kate/Holly left Oxford, she transformed herself. How and why did Kate/Holly undergo a metamorphosis after leaving Oxford?

Essay Topic 2

Artistic license is the way that an author creates, art, music, or writing based upon her interpretation of life. How does Vaughan use artistic license to create the realistic background of Anatomy of a Scandal?

Essay Topic 3

Advocacy is defined as being more persuasive than your opponent and does not necessarily hinge on the truth. What does truth have to do with adversarial advocacy? Why is “truth a tricky issue” (5) when it comes to justice and advocacy?

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