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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. What does Dixon do to get the first taxi in Chapter 13?

2. What does Dixon do when he sees the Welch family in Chapter 25?

3. What do Gore-Urquhart and Dixon agree upon about the lecture?

4. In Chapter 18, why doesn't Dixon eat dinner with the Welches?

5. In Chapter 17, why do Dixon and Beesley go to the common room?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Dixon after he learns he will lose his university job?

2. In Chapter 18, why is Dixon upset with Welch's offer of dinner?

3. In Chapter 16, how does Dixon try to get even with Johns?

4. How does Dixon help Christine get into Welch's house after the dance?

5. After Johns reads the fake letter from Dixon, what does he do?

6. While in the taxi after the dance, how does Christine describe her relationship with Bertrand?

7. Why does Christine ask Dixon to meet her at the train station?

8. In Chapter 17, how does Welch interfere with Dixon's work on the "Merrie England" lecture?

9. How does Atkinson try to calm down Margaret in Chapter 16?

10. What happens when Dixon and Bertrand get into a fistfight?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the college setting affect this novel? What other settings highlight the impact of the college campus?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze how dialogue is used in this novel. When does the author use dialogue? What purpose does dialogue serve over descriptive narration?

Essay Topic 3

Explore the use of protagonists/antagonists in this novel. Which characters fall into which categories? How do these characters redefine their categories? How do these categories affect the reader?

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