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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. In An African Story, what lures in the creature that kills the servant boy?

2. In Skin, where is a strange work of Soutine's sold at the end?

3. In Only This, what does the woman die of?

4. What does the little boy do at the beginning of The Wish?

5. In Someone Like You, what did the old friends previously do together?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the pilots want to punish Madame Rosette?

2. What does the pilot in A Piece of Cake realize when he lands after the plane is shot down?

3. In Poison, what does Pope tell Timber when he first comes home one night?

4. What does the boy pretend to be doing in The Wish?

5. In They Shall Not Grow Old, what does Fin see before he dies?

6. In Taste, why does Mike Schofield get so mad when he finds out Richard cheated in the bet?

7. What did the woman in Yesterday was Beautiful tell the pilot to do?

8. In An African Story, why does the old farmer become angry with his servant?

9. In Man From the South, what oddity does the soldier notice about the woman who rescues him?

10. How does the woman in Only This die?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mental illness was a huge theme in many of these stories. What were some prime examples of this, and what messages were being sent in these stories?

Essay Topic 2

Roald Dahl includes some ingenious forms of irony in these stories. What are some of these examples, and how does their ironic nature affect the plot of the stories in which they are included?

Essay Topic 3

Despair was an emotion that affected a number of the characters in these stories. Which characters were most affected by despair, and how did this change the course of the plots in which they were involved?

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