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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. Who does Tom Frame portray when he is working?

2. Why did Brian save Tom's letter?

3. What is the "DisaHole" (5)?

4. What does Brian see on Tom Frame's body when he passes it later in the day?

5. What are Visitors called in VICTORIAN WEEKEND?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Amy use the trust conveyed by her position to protect herself and Brian?

2. What is in Tom's note to Brian, and how does Brian react to the note?

3. Why does Brian tell the reader that they are usually "swamped" with Visitors, and what does this imply about the relationship between narrator and reader?

4. What indication is there in the text that Brian's interpretation of "friendship" might be different from the reader's?

5. How does Tom Frame end up committing a crime, and how does Brian react?

6. How do Brian's feelings about Amy change over the course of their time together in the Room?

7. How did Rolph and Brian become friends?

8. What is the source of Ann and Tom Frame's marital troubles?

9. Explain the etiquette that governs how workers react to others "mating" in the Room.

10. What is ironic about Tom's behavior when Amy confronts him about the letter?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the significance of the floods and other periodic inconveniences experienced by the community in "Ghoul." Support your ideas with evidence from the text.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay that analyzes "Ghoul" as satire. Support your arguments with textual evidence.

Essay Topic 3

Consider this quote from page 27:

Honestly, I am filled with hope. What new life might we begin, free of the bothersome prospect of being Visited? Dedicated to some new task, some fresh way of being? Who might we become, sans roles, free to redecorate and un-theme this spacious home of ours? What might come to interest us? Toward what might we redirect our considerable, until now misspent, energy?

Write an essay in which you consider how this quote characterizes Brian, given the information he has already shared about the "Slough." Use textual evidence to support your assertions.

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