View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Jenny and Oliver doing when they finally have sex?

2. How long have the two been dating at the opening of this chapter?

3. About what nationality did Oliver make a comment?

4. Who opens the door when Oliver and Jenny walk up?

5. What does this chapter foreshadow in terms of Oliver and his father?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are Jenny and Oliver married?

2. What does Oliver admit about his relationship with Jenny?

3. What do Oliver and Jenny tell her father about how they plan to wed?

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

5. What does Oliver's father ask Oliver about a letter he's waiting on and what did the father suggest?

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

7. Why does Oliver think Jenny knows who he is?

8. What surprises Oliver about sex with Jenny?

9. What does Jenny tell Oliver after they make love?

10. How do Jenny and Oliver feel about Oliver III's new appointment?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Oliver III tells his son that if he marries Jenny, he will cut him out of his life. Oliver walks out of the club with every intention to marry Jenny and live his own life, free of his father.

1. What would you do and how would you feel if your parent forbid you to marry the person you wanted to marry?

2. Do you think Oliver's father has motivations other than snobbery to say a marriage between Oliver and Jenny would be a mistake? What do you think those reasons might be and do you agree with them?

3. What do you think would be the problems in a marriage between two people of very different backgrounds, for example, two religions, or two different classes or two different races or cultures?

Essay Topic 2

Oliver accepts his father's love for the first time, seeing it for what it is in his father's awkward way of showing love. It is a happy ending despite the devastation that marks Jenny's death.

1. Do you think Oliver's joy at finally knowing his father loves him is stronger than his grief at Jenny's death?

2. Do you think someone can experience joy and sorrow at almost the exact same moment? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Oliver is not comfortable with his life, but his deepest anxiety appears to come from his father.

1. Why do you think Oliver is uncomfortable with his life? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Do you think Oliver's father is the cause of Oliver's anxiety around him? Why or why not?

3. Do you think Oliver's perceptions of his parents are accurate? Why or why not?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 816 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample