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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 country does Mrs. Yardley come from?

2. What kills the children's puppy?

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

4. What does Dr. Potter note is excellent about the journey?

5. Which member of the Hardy family persuaded her parents to allow Myrtle to stay?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Jones create havoc in the household?

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

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

6. What does the group experience aboard the boat?

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

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

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

10. Describe Myrtle's early life.

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

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

Examine the books reception in three different countries including the country the book was written. How do their opinions about the books differ? Was the book more influential in one country than another? If so, why?

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