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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. In Volume 5, who finds Tristram after he has been injured?

2. How does Tristram describe love in his alphabetical listing?

3. What concern does Tristram voice in Chapter 1 of Volume 7?

4. Where does Lieutenant Le Fever die?

5. Who plans on spying on Toby through a keyhole?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Toby become Billy Le Fever's guardian?

2. Why does Tristram decide to travel abroad in Volume 7?

3. Why do Toby and Trim temporarily move in with Widow Wadham?

4. Why does Trim take responsibility for Tristram's injury in Volume 5?

5. What position does Toby recommend Billy Le Fever assume in the Shandy household?

6. How is Tristram injured at the age of five?

7. Why does Walter Shandy write Toby a letter in Volume 8?

8. Who is Lieutenant Le Fever?

9. How does communication among the characters disintegrate in Volume 8?

10. What inconsistencies exist in Tristram's friendship with Eugenuis?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How are love and marriage depicted in the novel? How do the male characters view love and marriage? How do the female characters view love and marriage? What lesson does Tristram learn about love?

Essay Topic 2

What views about social class are expressed in the novel? How do the Shandys treat their servants? Why does Dr. Slop make such a point to verbally abuse Obidiah and complain about the midwife? What perception of social class does Tristram express?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast Sterne's Yorick with Shakespeare's Yorick. How are both characters tragic? What role does Sterne's Yorick play in Tristram's life compared to the role Shakespeare's Yorick plays in Hamlet's life? Why might Sterne have chosen Yorick to deliver the last line of the novel?

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