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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 does Ray think about when he looks at the memorial?

2. Who was Vince's hero when he was a child?

3. Where is the name of the home June lives in?

4. Who does Amy say she chose over Jack?

5. Why does Ray go to the bathroom?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Ray refuse to sell Jack his camper van?

2. What problems has Lenny had with his daughter Sally?

3. Why is Lenny happy that he finally stood up to Vince?

4. What does Vic remember about the funeral at Fairfax Park Hospital?

5. How did Amy meet Jack?

6. What do the characters think about as they look at the war memorial?

7. How do the characters cope climbing up the hill?

8. What does Vince do at Wick's farm?

9. How did an affair start between Ray and Amy?

10. What does Vince regret doing to his daughter Kathy?

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

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.

Essay Topic 3

Swift writes Last Orders in the first person and from different points of view. Why do you think Swift chose to write the story in the first person? How do you think the meaning of the story would change if Swift wrote it in the third person?

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