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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 the name of Frank's company?
2. When Frank arrives where his children were said to be at, he is told they are now where?
3. When does the wood arrive at Reid Press?
4. How does Frank respond to Dolly saying she thinks he asks too much of Nellie?
5. As Frank departs the Chaplaincy, Miss Kinsman follows how closely?
Short Essay Questions
1. Dolly is very clingy on the morning the children return from their visit to the dacha with Lisa, but Lisa is not with them, so Frank allows her to stay with him until noon when he takes her home and they encounter what?
2. What is Frank's answer to Selwyn in Chapter 10 when he asks how his book, Birch Tree Thoughts, is going?
3. Why is it Mrs. Kuriatin readily agrees to have Dolly and Ben come after school to Mitya's party?
4. What are some examples of Nellie Cooper's lack of enthusiasm for the things she does?
5. In a later conversation between Frank and Dolly, what do they discuss concerning her mother?
6. Why is it reasonable to describe the midnight scene in the woods surrounding the Reid dacha as the most mysterious in the novel?
7. What noticeable change is there in Nellie's attitude once she arrives in Moscow?
8. What are the various members of the Reid household staff doing upon Frank's arrival home after collecting his children at the station master's home?
9. Why does Frank make the effort to go up and down the street where Reid Press is located?
10. What sort of description does Penelope Fitzgerald provide of Tvyordov, the chief compositor?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the real motive behind Volodya breaking into Reid Press? How does Frank learn the true reason? What is it Volodya detests the thought of? What impression has Volodya made upon Lisa?
Essay Topic 2
During the course of the conversation Frank has with Dolly over her writing a letter to her mother, what does the reader learn that she thinks of Nellie? How does Dolly view Nellie's decision to get married and have children? What sort of way is that for a ten-year-old child to think? Does it seem unusual for Dolly?
Essay Topic 3
What background regarding Nellie does the reader gain in Chapter 3? Where does Frank meet her? Describe her unique personality. How does she approach life? What are examples of this?
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