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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. How would Oliver had described Jenny's religious beliefs at this point in his knowledge of her?

2. What does Jenny say is part of Oliver's life?

3. What does Oliver refuse to tell Ray?

4. How does Oliver's father react to Oliver's marriage plans?

5. When Oliver talks to a Dean at the school about his situation, what does the Dean suggest?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Oliver do to keep Jenny with him?

2. Now that Oliver and Jenny have begun the sexual part of their relationship what is Oliver's roommate forced to do?

3. What happens to Oliver because Jenny has distracted him during the hockey game?

4. When and under what circumstances does Oliver go to the Radcliffe library?

5. How does Oliver play hockey and what are the consequences of Jenny's being at the game? Where does Oliver talk to Jenny while at the game?

6. Why is Oliver nervous about meeting Jenny's father?

7. What does Oliver III tell his son will happen if he marries Jenny and what does Oliver do?

8. Why does Oliver go to talk to the Associate Dean of Harvard Law School?

9. Why does Oliver make certain Jenny has a program at the hockey game?

10. What does Jenny say to Oliver about Oliver's father and Oliver's reaction to his own family?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Oliver places top in his class at law school, which is important foreshadowing because the top three members of his class will receive the best job offers after graduation.

1. Why do you think education is important? Use examples from this book and your life to support your answer.

2. How do you think the education system in America helps students?

3. How do you think the education system in America harms students?

Essay Topic 2

Oliver receives a good job in New York that pays him a record salary, officially ending the money drought they have suffered for the last three years. Now things will be different for them do to this extra money, affecting their lives drastically and touching on the theme of money once more.

1. Oliver has now gone from rich to poor to rich. How do you think that would affect someone's character?

2. Do you think Jenny and Oliver are happier now that they have plenty of money?

3. How do you think Jenny feels about coming from a working class home to one with plenty of money?

Essay Topic 3

Money. Life without Oliver's family money is beginning to make it felt in this chapter, foreshadowing the struggle Oliver and Jenny will face over the next three years while Oliver attends law school. Also touched on in this chapter for the first time is the theme of money.

1. How do you think you would react if you went from being very wealthy to being poor? Use examples from the book and your life to support your answer.

2. Do you think rich people are happier than poor people?

3. Do you think Oliver was being too stubborn about staying away from his father and not getting help from him? Why or why not?

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