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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 kind of accent causes Potter to think about his childhood?

2. What did the soldier suffer from when he first got to the front?

3. What is the name of the young lieutenant Potter and George have dinner with?

4. Where does Myrtle run to after she sees George with Pompey?

5. Why does Pompey say he gave back the lady's duck?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Myrtle do with her two oranges?

2. What reason does Dr. Potter give Myrtle for marrying Beatrice?

3. Why does Jones think that an angel is watching over Potter?

4. How does George react to Myrtle's sexual advances?

5. Summarize the fifth chapter.

6. How does the man with the missing ear die?

7. How does Pompey prove he is in love with Myrtle?

8. What does Jones tell Potter he wants from life?

9. How does Potter suffer in this chapter?

10. How does Myrtle react to Jones' sexual advances?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Examine the novel's chronological setting.

1. What were the main concerns during the 1850s? How does the author express these concerns?

2. How would the author change the novel if it were set in today's society?

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