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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 color hair does the nurse have?

2. What is the name of Vince's daughter?

3. What is Jack 10 to 1 against doing?

4. What continent did Ray serve in during the war?

5. Who is married to Joan?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Vince change after coming back from the army?

2. Why was Vince getting teased at school?

3. What does Vince say he hated his father for doing?

4. What does Ray talk to the bartender about?

5. Why was Amy disappointed in Jack?

6. What fond memory does Ray have of his father?

7. How did Vince think differently to Jack?

8. What reason does Ray give for Amy not coming on the trip?

9. What conversation does Ray remember having with Jack's father, Ronnie?

10. What was special about at an earlier time in the Coach and Horses in 1984?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine Swift's writing style. How would you describe Swift's prose style? What kind of vocabulary does he use? What meaning does Swift's style give to the story?

Essay Topic 2

Look at the generation gap between younger and the older characters. What different experiences did both generations go through? What problems is the generation gap causing the characters? Was generational gap expressed in Last Orders particularly wide during this time or is a wide generational gap common to all ages?

Essay Topic 3

Write a 500-word essay revolving around one of the following statements:

1) It was people's ability to travel and not music that changed society in the sixties.

2) The working class characters are often too cliche to have any real impact on the reader.

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