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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. How do Tom, Willie, and Zach find a place to stay in Salmouth?

2. What does Geoffrey decide to do for work?

3. What does Tom have a nightmare about after Willie is gone?

4. How does Tom get Willie out of the hospital?

5. What do Geoffrey and Miss Thorne decide on for their first lesson?

Short Essay Questions

1. Once again, there is great suspense. Describe the suspense in Chapter 17, "The Rescue."

2. How is Chapter 16, "The Search" suspenseful?

3. How does the war change the lives of those in Weirwold forever in Chapter 21, "Back to School"?

4. How is Willie similar and different from the boy that Tom met at the beginning of the novel?

5. At first, how does Zach's death affect Wiliie?

6. How has Zach helped Willie discover himself?

7. What kind of a project does Miss Thorne and Geoffrey put together for the first day of school, and how does this project show that these two will make a good team of teachers?

8. How do the psychiatrist and Tom differ in their assessment of Willie's recovery needs?

9. Chapter 18, is called "Recovery." Specifically, how does Willie begin to recover, and who helps him do so in this chapter?

10. Now that Willie has arrived back in London, both he and his mother can see how much he has changed. What changes are there in Willie and how do these changes affect his relationship with his mother?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the main setting of the novel affect the storyline?

Essay Topic 2

How is Mrs. Beech hypocritical and what does this say about the ideas that she taught her son? What did she teach her son specifically? When and how does the reader learn about what Mrs. Beech has taught Willie?

Essay Topic 3

Why is Geoffrey brought into the novel? How does he help in the healing of Willie?

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