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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 does Isabelle NOT tell Stephen about?

2. What does Elizabeth know about Robert?

3. What does Stephen learn after he is rescued from the tunnel?

4. Elizabeth asks her mother about her father's papers because she is interested in ____________________.

5. What does Stephen recall when he visits Amiens?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Elizabeth and why does she have an interest in learning about her family's history?

2. Isabelle is in love with Max, but in what way does her love for Stephen exist?

3. What does Colonel Gray tell Elizabeth about Stephen when she is able to locate him?

4. Who is Isabelle in love with now? How does Stephen feel about seeing her after all this time?

5. What is Weir's response when Stephen asks him why he is so anxious to survive?

6. What is Robert's response when Elizabeth asks when he will leave his wife?

7. How is Elizabeth unlike her grandmother regarding her pregnancy?

8. What are the circumstances that have Stephen and Jack trapped in a tunnel?

9. What is Stephen's state of mind after Weir's death and what does Jeanne encourage him to do?

10. Why is Stephen being pressured to take an office job during the war?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the significance of the book's title? What are some other possible titles for the book. List at least five and cite your reasons for each.

Essay Topic 2

Explain the concept of loneliness as it exhibits in the story. Which of the characters are lonely? Are they all lonely in some way? Explain the loneliness and the methods and attempts to overcome it.

Essay Topic 3

Project into the future ten years after the birth of Elizabeth's child and write a brief synopsis for the lives of Elizabeth, John, Robert, and Francoise. Be sure to include emotional states as well as physical characteristics, geographic locations, work, hobbies, socialization, etc.

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