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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Frank replies how to the Defense Ministry saying he is pursuing steps to be able to sell Reid Press and perhaps leave Russia?

2. What favorite expression of Nellie's arises in Chapter 17 that Frank does not like?

3. Dolly offers that Uncle Charlie should be leaving soon as he had not brought her mother back, and what else?

4. When Tvyordov relates he is thinking of working in England just long enough so he can retire to his home village, Frank responds how?

5. As Frank tells Lisa to answer Ben's query about why it is better for women now than ten years ago, she puts down her spoon and responds how?

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

In the first chapter Penelope Fitzgerald introduces the reader to a number of important characters. Who is Nellie Reid? How does the story center on her? Who is Frank Reid? What does he do in the first chapter? How does Selwyn Crane come into the story? What role does he play? What member of the Reid household is Toma?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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