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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 is Potter's role during the operation on the ape?

2. Who is Beatrice married to?

3. What kind of illness do the three doctors at Varna have?

4. Where does the stable boy take Pompey?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jones create havoc in the household?

2. What does the group experience aboard the boat?

3. Summarize the first chapter.

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

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

6. Describe Myrtle's early life.

7. How does the Duck-Boy help George?

8. How do Rimmer, George and Pompey get the ape to turn around so they can take its photograph?

9. What does Pompey Jones think is his role in life?

10. How does Myrtle and George's relationship develop in the opening chapter?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The author wrote Master Georgie in the first person, but with three different narrators. Why do you think the author chose to write the story in the first person? How do you think the meaning of the story would change if the author wrote it in the third person? What meaning does it give the story that Bainbridge uses three different narrators?

Essay Topic 2

You have been called to fight for your country. Your country has a draft system and you have no choice but to join up.

1. How would your life change if you left to fight in a war? How would your family react to you fighting in a war?

2. How could you try to get out of the war or make sure you were stationed in a safe place?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the Crimean War.

1. Who was the war between and why were the two sides fighting?

2. Why was the Crimean viewed as the first modern war?

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