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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 Jones consider George to be?

2. What signals dinnertime?

3. What does Pompey tell the housekeeper that Georgie cut out from a live ape?

4. How does Pompey Jones create havoc in the house?

5. What does Myrtle say are embossed on Mr. Hardy's white toes?

Short Essay Questions

1. Summarize the third chapter.

2. How does Jones create havoc in the household?

3. How does George's attitude change once he is in Constantnople?

4. How does Pompey defend himself when the footman questions why Pompey wants to be more than a servant?

5. What is Myrtle's life like with the Hardy family?

6. How does the author express Myrtle's role as an outsider?

7. How does Mr. Naughton react when he sees who he thinks is Myrtle's fiance with another woman?

8. What does Dr. Potter tell his wife about the hermit of Malea?

9. How does the Hardy family like society to see it?

10. How has the Hardy family changed four years later?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the values of the 1850s.

1. In what ways are the characters a product of their time?

2. How does the play express the changes European society was going through at the time?

3. Does modern society share any values with 1850s Europe?

Essay Topic 2

Choose two of the following people and outline their influence on Myrtle's life:

1. George

2. Mrs. Hardy

3. Beatrice

4. Pompey Jones

Essay Topic 3

Look at the structure of the novel.

1. How does the author use character and dialogue to drive the narrative?

2. Discuss elements of the narrative structure; Exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the novel's themes?

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