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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. Why does the group have to shoot a horse?

3. What does George do at the palace at the end of the day?

4. What is the name of the hospital where Georgie has been appointed?

5. What is the name of the war the soldiers are going to fight in?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the group experience aboard the boat?

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

4. How does Pompey help George and Rimmer in this chapter?

5. In what way does Pompey have a hold on George?

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

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

8. Summarize the first chapter.

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the following and discuss how it affects the tone of the novel and helps to express character and theme:

1. Setting.

2. Point of view.

3. Structure.

4. Language.

Essay Topic 2

Choose one of the characters in the novel and discuss how he or she would cope in one of the following scenarios:

1. His or her's loved one dies.

2. His or her's ship hits a horrific storm.

3. He or she is kidnapped by the Russian side.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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