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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. Otto Silenus openly

2. The author wants us to deduce that Otto Silenus is

3. While riding through the English countryside toward Kings Thursday, Paul has

4. After the interviews, Paul and Margot go to lunch and see

5. What is familiar about Prendergast in his new role as prison chaplain?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is it not surprising that Paul and Margot run into Philbrick at the upscale restaurant where they are having lunch?

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

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

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

5. What is ironic about Captain Grimes, besides the fact that he keeps showing up in Paul's life?

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

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

8. What is the distinguishing characteristic of Paul Pennyfeather that makes him go to Marseilles on business he is not really sure about--to call on women at an address in the depths of the slums?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write a biography of Evelyn Waugh. Did he become famous for his writing while he was alive? Did he become wealthy from his work, or was he an unknown until later? Where was he born and educated, and where did he live his adult life? What characteristics about Waugh led him to have the social insights he seems to possess?

Essay Topic 2

In this story, Waugh has young Peter Beste-Chetwynde not only mixing alcoholic drinks for adults, but indulging heavily himself at a very young age. Write an essay about the history of drinking in England. Was there ever a minimum age for drinking? Is there now? How does the rate of alcoholism in Britain compare to the U.S.?

Essay Topic 3

Who were the Moabites? What do we know about them, and why did their culture disappear? Why is there a negative connotation about them in Part II, Chapter 3, The Death of a Churchman? Write a detailed essay on the history of the Moabites, their beliefs, and anything that may be known about them.

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