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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 kind of car pulls outside the pub?

2. What did Carol always want to do?

3. What does Ray buy Carol for traveling in?

4. What is Striclkand's job?

5. Where does the traffic start slowing to a crawl?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Vince fight in school?

3. What had Jack and his wife planned to do before Jack died?

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

5. Why was Amy disappointed in Jack?

6. How does Lenny goad Vince in this chapter?

7. What conversation does Ray remember having with Jack?

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

9. What big news did Susie tell Ray?

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

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 2

Examine the role of one of the following jobs: butcher, insurance worker, undertaker and car salesman.

1) What kind of person would be best suited to the job?

2) In what way did the character in the book have the right characteristics to succeed in that job? Was it the perfect job for him or would he have been more suited to something else?

Essay Topic 3

Compare American and British culture.

1) What are the differences between the two cultures?

2) How have the two cultures influenced each other?

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