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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 large is the apartment Windrip has at a hotel in Chapter 35?

2. In Chapter 27, what month is it?

3. In Chapter 35, how does Windrip entertain himself?

4. What is the man's cover in Chapter 25 who says that he from Trowbridge?

5. In Chapter 24, when does Doremus say that he used to write the words that Philip tells him when they chat alone?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 27, why does Lorinda tell Doremus that they need to end their affair?

2. How does Mary Greenhill die?

3. What news does Lorinda bring Doremus in Chapter 38?

4. Why does Philip come to see his family in Chapter 24?

5. How do the details that Sissy, Buck, Mary, Doremus, and Father Perefixe learn to create a picture of the activities of the Corpo?

6. In Chapter 36, how do Doremus and the other prisoners celebrate Christmas?

7. In Chapter 27, what scheme does Mary devise and carry out by herself?

8. In Chapter 25, how is Doremus recruited for the New Underground?

9. In Chapter 31, what job is Doremus given at the concentration camp, and what are the advantages of his job?

10. In Chapter 30, how is Doremus arrested?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Windrip becomes a dictator when he is elected president. What actions and tactics do Windrip and his supporters commit in order to obtain power? Would Windrip and his supporters and associated be considered evil? Are they immoral?

Essay Topic 2

Doremus is married, but he has been having a long-term affair. How would you describe the relationship between Doremus and his wife and between him and his lover? What do the relationships reveal about him?

Essay Topic 3

Philip uses an idiom to show that he things a government needs to be broken before it can be formed into a good administration. What idiom does Philip use? How does he use the idiom to push his ideas about government? Why does Doremus believe that people are not souls to be broken to make a government?

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