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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 Pompey Jones tell Myrtle that he knows about?

2. What is the name of George's superior?

3. What does Dr. Potts dream of walking through back in England?

4. What poem does Dr. Potter talk about during the group's march?

5. What does Dr. Potter say he found overturned by the lake?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Dr. Potter's opinion of Pompey Jones?

3. How does Potter suffer in this chapter?

4. Why does Dr. Potter think Myrtle is an interesting subject as far as fate is concerned?

5. Why do the soldiers set up camp above the Tchernaya valley?

6. Why does Jones describe himself as a circus animal?

7. How does Pompey say he tricked the woman to whom he gave the duck?

8. Summarize the fourth chapter.

9. Explain the author's use of foreshadowing in the discussion about survival between Potter and Jones.

10. How does George die?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare one of the main characters to the person he or she was at the beginning of the book to the person he or she is at the end of the end of the book.

1. What did he or she hope to achieve at the beginning of the novel?

2. What events change his or her ideas about life?

3. How has his or her character changed by the end of the novel?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Identify the main themes of the story. In what way are these themes relevant to the period? How does the author use character and setting to express these themes?

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