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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. With whom does the fertility problem rest?

2. What does Jenny say in jest that they would name a boy child?

3. How could the firm be described where Oliver is to work?

4. What happens while Oliver is holding Jenny?

5. What is the first thing Oliver does when he leaves the room at the beginning of this chapter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Oliver receive in the mail that he and Jenny fight about and how does she feel? How does he feel?

2. What do Oliver and Jenny do when she doesn't get pregnant?

3. What does Jenny insist on doing at home and what is the one compromise she allows?

4. What does Jenny tell Oliver about her visit to the doctor?

5. What does Oliver do after Jenny leaves the apartment when he threw the phone across the room?

6. What does Oliver tell his father about his request?

7. What did Oliver do in his second year of law school?

8. What does Oliver decide shortly after they move to New York and how does Jenny feel about it?

9. What kind of place do Jenny and Oliver rent when they return to Cambridge?

10. What kind of law firm does Oliver take a job with and where is it located?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Jenny and Oliver are like oil and vinegar in their first meeting together.

1. What do you think is meant by this statement? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. If you were in Oliver's situation would you just forget about Jenny or pursue her? Or if you were Jenny would you go for coffee with Oliver? (Answer depending upon your preference for a date). Explain why.

3. Have you ever met someone you didn't like when you first met them but later with whom you became good friends? Explain the circumstance and the similarities between it and Jenny and Oliver's meeting.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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