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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 Dunstable's nurse in the hospital?

2. What subject does Dunny study in the library?

3. What type of damage did the snowball cause to the person it hit?

4. After passing out, unconscious from blood loss, where does Dunstable wake up?

5. When Dunny's mother makes him choose between Mrs. Dempster and her, what is Dunny's choice?

Short Essay Questions

1. What traits does Dunstable observe in the members of his units that are attributed to German officers?

2. Boy wants Dunstan to drop his fixation with saints, but Dunstan feels differently about his path in life. Why?

3. Why was Dunstable relieved to hear the news of his mother's death?

4. What hampers Dunny from learning magic tricks?

5. Why does Dunstan feel he can never love Diana?

6. How did Dunstan gain his nest egg?

7. What does Reverend Dempster pray about often?

8. Why do the villagers decide that Mrs. Dempster is "simple?"

9. Why do the villagers judge Mrs. Dempster as lacking?

10. What does Dunstable do when he finds the German snipers?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Using examples from the book, how has Dunstan's personality and character changed throughout the story? When he was a child, how did he deal with his problems? How does he deal with them as an adult? What was important to him as a child, and what is important to him now? Why did Dunstan's character change?

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 1, Percy Staunton is referred to as the narrator's "lifelong friend and enemy." Using examples from the book, which would you say Percy was to the narrator - a friend or an enemy?

Essay Topic 3

Padre Blazon asks Dunstan who his devil is when Dunstan goes and visits him for the last time in Europe. How does Padre Blazon define a "devil," and, using that definition, is Liel really Dunstan's devil, or is it someone else? Why? Please explain your answer with examples from the text.

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