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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 Tristan do after he rushes to find Samuel?

2. What does Nordstrom ask Phillip's friend, the Sephard, to arrange?

3. About what does Isabel think regarding one of her sons?

4. Tristan comes down with dysentery in dangerous seas and barely escapes with both his life and the ship. His fevers make him delirious. He stands on the bowspirit and hallucinates what?

5. Nordstrom adds the next room to his suite and does what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Alfred feel about Susannah? Does she feel the same in return?

2. Why is Susannah feeling better in the new house in Helena?

3. What takes place when most of the people have left the dinner?

4. How does Tristan spend seven years with his new wife?

5. What does Phillip discuss philosophically that seems to upset Nordstrom?

6. Why does Ludlow send One Stab to Helena?

7. What does does Nordstrom do on his way to his appointment with the psychiatrist?

8. What does Nordstrom do with his money?

9. What does Nordstrom discuss with his psychiatrist?

10. How does Isabel Two die?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Nordstrom has feelings of death and loss.

Part 1) What causes these feelings? How do these feelings affect him?

Part 2) How do these feelings begin to change? What might be causing this change? How do you know this?

Part 3) How do these feelings lead him to dream of being a chef by the sea?

Essay Topic 2

Samuel's death is significant.

Part 1) How does Samuel die? How do his family and friends react? Why do the react this way?

Part 2) Why is his death significant? How does it affect the plot?

Part 3) How different would the story be if Samuel had not died? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Backstories are given about Nordstrom.

Part 1) What are these backstories? What purpose do they serve?

Part 2) Are these necessary to understand Nordstrom? Why or why not?

Part 3) What is significant and/or symbolic about these backstories? Why?

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