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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 name does Harriet want to call Phillip?

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

3. What does Harriet say everyone needs?

4. Who helped Charles when he collapsed in the restaurant?

5. What is the last line of the poem that Charles quotes?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the painting George picks up in the shop.

4. What do Wallis and Meredith see while they are working?

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

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

7. What is Flint's opinion on modern day literature?

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

9. How does Sadlier know the Seymour paintings are fake?

10. What is wrong with the tea Wallis makes Meredith?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Replace the play's London setting with one of the following cities:

1. New York.

2. Paris.

3. Chicago.

What new meaning would the new setting give the book? How important is setting for developing meaning in a story?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Examine the novel's chronological setting.

1) What were the main concerns during the 1990s? How does the author express these concerns?

2) How would the author have to change the novel if it were set in today's society?

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