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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 Das carrying with him when he arrives at Flora's house?

2. What is Flora describing in the letter Pike and Mrs. Swan are reading?

3. Where did Flora see sculptures of Gods?

4. What does Mrs. Swan say is a sure way of getting the details of a person's life wrong?

5. What does Mrs. Swan dislike about Pike's letters?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Mrs. Swan's first meeting with her husband?

2. What does Anish say about Indian paintings?

3. Why is Durance suspicious of Flora and Das' relationship?

4. Who is the young man waiting in Mrs. Swan's garden?

5. What are Flora and Durance doing in the historic part of the stage?

6. What reason does Flora give Durance for coming to India?

7. What information does Dilip give Pike?

8. How does Das think people learned of Flora's illness?

9. What does Anish tell Mrs. Swan about his father's background?

10. What does Flora say she will never forgive herself for?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the novel's chronological setting.

1. What were the main concerns during the 1930s? How does the author express these concerns?

2. How would the author change the novel if it was set in today's society?

Essay Topic 2

Examine Mrs. Swan's claim that Biographies distort rather than tell the truth.

1) What are the arguments for and against her claim?

2) Which argument do you agree with and why??

Essay Topic 3

Replace the play's setting with one of the following settings:

1. Japan.

2. Pakistan

3. USA.

What new meaning would the new setting give the book? How important is setting for developing meaning in a story?

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