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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. In Chapter 37, where is Doremus living?

2. In Chapter 35, where is Windrip sent when Sarason takes over the government?

3. At the end of Chapter 29, how long was Colonel Dewey Haik under fire when he was a first lieutenant in France in 1918?

4. In Chapter 36, what does Mrs.Candy bring Doremus when she visits him at Trianon?

5. In Chapter 20 when Doremus considers fleeing to Canada, how much money does he think he can get?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the result of an investigation into the death of Greenhill in Chapter 20?

2. Why is Colonel Dewey Haik not a good candidate for Secretary of War?

3. In Chapter 21, why has Julian left Amherst?

4. How does Mary Greenhill die?

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

6. What is Windrip like at the beginning of Chapter 35?

7. What is the curriculum at the newly established Corpo universities in Chapter 20?

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

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

10. In Chapter 37, how do the Canadians feel about the refugees from America?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There are two points of view in the novel: an omniscient narrator and a third-person limited narrator. How do the two points of view advance the plot? How does switching between the two viewpoints affect the storyline? How does the use of two viewpoints provide more information for readers than one viewpoint could?

Essay Topic 2

Doremus observes Windrip’s dictatorship and dictatorships that he reads about, and he decides that there is a common structure in dictatorships. What commonalities does Doremus see in various dictatorships? What does he decide is the “biology of dictatorships” (285)?

Essay Topic 3

Sarason deposes Windrip. How did Windrip lose the power he won? What does his loss of power seem to imply about authoritarianism and authoritarian leaders?

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