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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. People carry "deep and diverse impressions" of Professor Silenus'
(a) Professionalism.
(b) Genius.
(c) Architecture.
(d) Talent.

2. The women, whose "work" is questionable, were ultimately signed on as
(a) Truck drivers.
(b) Stewardesses.
(c) Train custodians.
(d) Waitresses.

3. At Edgdon Heath,
(a) The quarries are tapped out.
(b) The convicts are free to roam.
(c) The convicts are supposed to work.
(d) Tourists try to spot convicts.

4. Margot has a bias that favors hiring
(a) Girls who come from poverty.
(b) Girls with husbands.
(c) Girls with no experience.
(d) Girls with children.

5. Professor Silenus decides to stay on at Margot's house, since
(a) He is sleeping better.
(b) He has no ambition.
(c) He has no money.
(d) He wants to wait for Margot.

Short Answer Questions

1. The prison chaplain turns out to be

2. Young Peter Pastmaster is now

3. What can we assume about Potts in this chapter?

4. Paul arranges to have dinner with Arthur Potts who is

5. Silenus sees himself as static, and Paul as

Short Essay Questions

1. How is it that Prendergast is now a chaplain at the prison where Paul is incarcerated?

2. Why do you suppose Potts is intercepting Margot's interviewees across the street as they leave her residence?

3. What is about Margot that is so attractive to Peter? What personal motivation of Margot's does she make very clear to the men around her?

4. How is Paul given the news of Prendergast's death?

5. Margot Beste-Chetwynde had been at King's Thursday only once before she purchased the property many years later. Discuss that visit.

6. Describe the trait in Paul Pennyfeather that makes him ask Alistair Digby-Vaine-Trumpington to be his best man.

7. How does the judge see Paul's involvement in the crime for which he is convicted?

8. The author gives us a clear glimpse of Pennyfeather's future at the end of this chapter. Discuss this seemingly awkwardly-placed revelation.

9. What is Paul's response to the mysterious diagnosis, the trip to the hospital and his freedom?

10. Compare the two names held by Maltravers -- Maltravers and, now, Metroland. What is Waugh trying to say?

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