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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 the name of Mordecai's sister who is taken?

2. What is the purpose that Mirah's father claims to want money the first time that he asks her to aid him financially?

3. Who tells Daniel that his mother wants to meet him?

4. Whom does Daniel end up marrying when the novel concludes?

5. How is Mordecai notified that his father has taken his little sister away?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the reader learn about the Arrowpoints during the conversation among Daniel, Grandcourt and Gwendolyn at the Abbey?

2. What important financial news does Grandcourt make Lush tell Gwendolyn?

3. What does Grandcourt suspect about the package of diamonds that Gwendolyn has received?

4. How does Daniel's mother misrepresent Daniel's identity to her servants?

5. What does Daniel's mother tell him about her heritage?

6. How did Daniel's mother come to find out about him as an adult?

7. How do the Cohens react when Daniel and Mordecai tell them that Mordecai will be leaving them to go live with his long-lost sister?

8. What does Joseph Kalonymos talk to Daniel about before he hands over the family chest?

9. What does Sir Hugo confess to Daniel about his reason for keeping Daniel's parentage in secret for so long?

10. Why does Daniel think that Hans' love for Mirah will not result in a long-lasting relationship?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

While Gwendolyn is clearly her mother's favorite child, she reacts very apologetically if she ever hurts her mother's feelings or disobeys her. Discuss what a minimum of two of those types of interactions show the reader about Gwendolyn's character, as well as that of Franny's.

Essay Topic 2

The character of Fanny has a complicated role in the novel. Using three specific examples of her actions, write an essay discussing why she is a respectable person; or why she is not a respectable person.

Essay Topic 3

Select a character from the list below. Then examine three major choices that the character made in the play, and what those choices reveal to the reader about that him or her.

1) Gwendolyn

2) Daniel

3) Rex

4) Grandcourt

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