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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 written on the paper the narrator finds in "A School Story"?

2. Who has memories about where the rose garden is to be planted?

3. What does Parkins not believe in?

4. What is Mr. Anderson researching in Denmark?

5. What does the landlord tell Mr. Wraxall that men saw in the woods during the time of the count?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Parkins, in "Oh Whistle, and I'll come to You, My Lad."

2. What is the Tractate Middoth?

3. Why does Parkins get rid of the metal object he finds, in "Oh Whistle, and I'll come to You, My Lad"? How does he get rid of it?

4. Who is Master Sampson, and what does he carry with him?

5. What the city of Chorazin, and how does Mr. Wraxall learn about it?

6. What do the two men discuss, at the start of "A School Story "?

7. What does Parkins dream about the night he finds the metal object? What does the maid tell him the next day?

8. What happens when Mr. Somerton finds Abbot Thomas' treasure? How does he fix what happens?

9. How does Dennistoun arrive at S. Bertrand, and why does he want to go to the church?

10. What do Mrs. Anstruther and Frank see in the rose garden that scares them?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one story and analyze the message James is trying to convey in that story. What lesson do the characters learn in this story?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze the interaction between Mr. Wraxall and Mary Simpson. How do these characters help each other? Why does Mr. Wraxall want to help Mary Simpson? Is love a theme of this story?

Essay Topic 3

How does James use the theme of greed in his stories? Choose one story that uses the theme of greed and explain whether James uses the story to teach a lesson. What is that lesson and how does James present it to the reader?

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