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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 is being served at dinner when Robbie returns to the table?

2. Where do Leon and Cecilia walk to as they are talking to each other?

3. Who does the answer to #151 say that she saw?

4. How many stragglers have reached a bombed out house in order to figure out a shortcut to the sea in the beginning of this chapter?

5. Who summons everyone to dinner, which interrupts the conversation between Lola and Briony?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Robbie have to say about the letter that he wrote to Cecilia?

2. Why is Briony the one who is left with the adults to tell the story?

3. How does Briony escape Cecelia's questioning?

4. Who interrupts Briony as she is trying to write a new story?

5. How does Briony reveal her true self within this section?

6. What is Cecilia doing in response to the attack?

7. What does Leon have to say about England in hot weather?

8. When Cecilia puts on the pink dress, who does she think she looks like?

9. What has been haunting Emily lately?

10. Who enters the library and catches Robbie and Cecilia?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The library scene between Robbie and Cecilia is one that can shock readers, while also causing them to learn more about these two characters and their feelings for each other.

Part 1: Why do you think this scene was narrated by Robbie instead of Cecilia?

Part 2: How did you feel about Robbie before the scene? After the scene?

Part 3: How does this scene show the true feelings between these two characters?

Essay Topic 2

The tragedy of Briony becomes all the more disturbing when the reader finds out she has an illness at the end of the story.

Part 1: What is the illness of Briony at the end of this book?

Part 2: What does this illness seem to say about the idea of memories?

Part 3: What might this illness be symbolic of within the context of the story? In other words, what might this illness seem to say about the idea of memory and about holding onto one's memories?

Essay Topic 3

The idea of a letter becomes an important plot point at several times in this story.

Part 1: List three instances in which a letter delivers an important message.

Part 2: Are there any instances in which a letter is used for a positive purpose? What are they?

Part 3: In today's times, could these messages be delivered by e-mail? Or is the structure of the letter crucial to its value and its worth? Does the actual format of the letter add to the meaning?

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