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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. Why does Rolph not worry that Edgar will read his letter?

2. What do the Monitors offer to buy Brian when they come to see him in Dining?

3. After Amy leaves to go to DISCO LOVE NEST, what is Brian's response to the shimmering lights and swaying trees?

4. What criticism do the two head Monitors level at Brian when they find him in Dining?

5. What do the page 19 letters "'R.S.,' 'T.F.,' and 'G.T.'” stand for?

Short Essay Questions

1. After the funeral, what conflicting feelings does Brian have about his relationship with Amy and Law 6?

2. Why do the people in Brian's community find it essential to believe that Visitors will arrive any day?

3. What does Rolph suggest are some possible reasons for their community being put underground?

4. When Brian realizes that there are no Visitors coming, what people does he think about, and what does he realize about them?

5. When Brian goes to look for Amy in Dining, what does he think when he sees Jim, and why?

6. After finding out what Brian knows, what choice do the Monitors give him, and what decision does he make?

7. What is the Slough?

8. How is Brian feeling when he first heads over to Dining to look for Amy, and why?

9. What causes Brian to realize that he is in love with Amy?

10. When Brian is looking for Amy in Dining, who finds Brian, and what do they want from him?

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 the significance of artifice in "Ghoul." Support your assertions 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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