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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 Harriet bring to the art gallery?

2. Who wrote The Four Seasons?

3. What does Mr. Crome tell Chatterton is worse for the boy than being on the streets?

4. Why does Meredith say she talks so little about her poetry?

5. What can Charles see gleaming from his hospital window?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Harriet act during Charles' funeral service?

2. How does Chatterton spend his night?

3. How does the scene change when Mary arrives?

4. Why does Edward claim he does not like the Chatterton portrait?

5. How does Harriet persuade Vivien to give her Chatterton's papers?

6. What does Pat Joynson tell Philip about Chatterton?

7. Why is Chatterton excited about his life at the beginning of Chapter 13?

8. How is Charles at the beginning of the ninth chapter?

9. How does Harriet get what she wants from Vivien?

10. How does Harriet persuade Cumberland to authenticate her painting?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the main themes of the story. In what way are these themes relevant to the time period? How does the author use character and setting to express these themes?

Essay Topic 2

Choose one of the following historical figures in Ackroyd's novel and discuss how Ackroyd represents them in CHATTERTON and why he represents that person in that manner. Are there people who would argue against Ackroyd's representation of that person's life?

1. Thomas Chatterton

2. George Meredith

3. Mary Meredith

4. Henry Wallis

Essay Topic 3

Choose one of the characters alive at the end of the book. Compare his or her character to who he or she was at the beginning of the book to who he or she is at the end.

1) What did your character hope to achieve at the beginning of the book?

2) What events changed your character ideas about life?

3) How has your character changed by the end of the novel?

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