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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. Silenus sees himself as static, and Paul as

2. Paul's walking partner

3. We can assume that the Hon. Miles Malpractice is

4. The unsuspecting Paul Pennyfeather is arrested while

5. Despite harsh prison conditions, Paul

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Sir Wilfred Lucas-Dockery represents a certain type of character in Waugh's coterie of nuts. Describe him.

3. What comparable trait can be said to be possessed by both Margot and Grimes?

4. Discuss Professor Silenus' role in the renovation of King's Thursday. What does he set out to accomplish?

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

6. On his way to Egdon-Heath, what does Paul learn ?

7. Briefly, discuss how Paul escapes the prison at Egdon-Heath.

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

9. Grimes has supposedly met with a terrible death in the bogs. Does Paul mourn his passing?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Research and write about the history of the practice of "white slavery" as it is described in this story. Does it still go on? When was it at its peak? Was it always prostitution, or were there other reasons to capture people and enslave them? Is this something that Americans have also participated in?

Essay Topic 2

Write a well-researched essay about the British educational system in the late 1920s, its flaws and any reforms that have taken place over the last decades. Has the system improved? Is it still a second-choice job to be a school master in England? How do England's test scores compare with other countries'?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay on the gentleman's code of conduct to which Paul Pennyfeather subscribes. What was its origin? Why would people cling to it after so many years? In what way was it a benefit to be considered a "gentleman?" Did this code carry over to the new world when people began to settle in America? Describe the code, what it required and its meaning to the different classes of society in Britain and in the early U.S.

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