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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 is Homenas?

2. What tune does Toby whistle in Volume 3?

3. In Volume 3, what does Dr. Slop create in the kitchen?

4. What animal does Toby gently catch and release when Tristram is ten?

5. Who asks Dr. Slop to come to the birthing room?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Walter Shandy help his brother after he returns from war?

2. Whom does Dr. Slop blame for his injury?

3. How does Walter Shandy attempt to change Tristram's name?

4. What unusual literary element is placed in the middle of Volume 3?

5. What concerns does Walter Shandy have about Dr. Slop's medical abilities?

6. What distracts Walter Shandy from his ire at the end of Volume 4?

7. Describe Yorick.

8. Describe Dr. Slop.

9. How is Phutatoruis injured in Volume 4?

10. Why is Dr. Slop offended by the midwife's request to attend the birthing?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the protagonist and antagonists of the novel. How is Tristram an "anti-hero"? What conflicts does he endure? How are the conflicts of the novel resolved?

Essay Topic 2

Why might Sterne have had so many of his characters injured in the novel? How is Tristram's birth injury related to the injury of other characters? What injures do other characters suffer and how do these injuries express the themes of the novel?

Essay Topic 3

How does Sterne describe the roles of men and women in the novel? How does the 18th century perception of women and their roles in society affect their action and dialogue? How do the perceptions of his father and uncle affect Tristram's perception of women?

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