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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. Before Oliver asks Jenny to marry him, what did the relationship seem to be?

2. What is Jennifer's response to the answer to question number 23?

3. What organization does his father imply would be a good place for Oliver?

4. From what fact that Jenny discovers does she take comfort?

5. About what nationality did Oliver make a comment?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How are Jenny and Oliver married?

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

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

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

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

8. Why does Oliver watch Jenny when introducing his parents to her?

9. What does Oliver refuse to tell Ray and what does he continue to deny?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The reader watches the two Olivers interact and has to wonder if this sense of competition is mostly a product of Oliver's imagination rather than a true competition that his father has initiated.

1. Do you think Oliver is imagining his father's motivations and feelings? Why or why not?

2. All people attribute feelings and thoughts to other people without knowing whether they are true. Explain a situation in which you, or someone you know, assumed a person thought one way and it was not true.

3. How would you feel if someone thought you believed something, or felt something that you didn't? How would you try to change their opinion?

Essay Topic 2

There is clearly a lot of love between father and daughter, a fact Oliver watches with some awkwardness.

1. Why do you think Oliver would feel awkward about Jenny's and Phil's relationship?

2. Do you think Phil is the "ideal" father or do you think he also has some negative points? Explain your answer and use examples from the book to support it.

3. Do you think Oliver feels awkward about Jenny and Phil because he regrets the relationship he has with his father? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Oliver seems to have grown some by this point as marked by his intuitive awareness that Phil would have been hurt if Oliver did not allow him to pay for the reception after their wedding.

1. What do you think might be some of the reasons Oliver is maturing? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Do you think Oliver's maturity shown in the book is unrealistic in the short amount of time period the book covers? Why or why not?

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