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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Olivia feel about her pregnancy in Section 32?
2. What do the midwives discuss when Olivia first arrives?
3. Who warns Olivia that "they" only want to "you-know-what with a white woman"?
4. How does the Nawab die?
5. What does the narrator say that Douglas's only son becomes when he grows up?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The relationships explored in Heat and Dust span generations, cultures and bloodlines. Of course, the connection between Olivia and the narrator is intriguing as they are not related by blood, and will never meet, yet Olivia's life is having a strong impact on the narrator's. Analyze the following aspects of this unique relationship.
1) Is Olivia a good person? Is the narrator?
2) Is it disloyal of the narrator to give so much attention and energy to the woman who betrayed her grandfather?
3) How would the story be different if the narrator was able to meet Olivia?
Essay Topic 2
Throughout Heat and Dust, the narrator discovers negative traits about Olivia, yet this only seems to fuel her desire to discover more about this intriguing woman.
1) Compare and contrast the things that motivate Olivia and the narrator.
2) Explain how positive and negative traits in the narrator inspire her to learn about Olivia.
3) Explain how Olivia's decisions impact the narrator's decisions.
Essay Topic 3
Heat and Dust is told from the narrator's first person journal entries and from Olivia's first person accounts in her letters to Marcia.
1) What is gained and lost from the author's use of this perspective for the story?
2) Who else could have told this story and what would the impact of their different viewpoint be?
3) If the narrator did not have Olivia's letters, but had heard of her story through oral accounts, how might the story change?
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