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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 the Russian use to kill George?

2. How does George make up to Myrtle?

3. What kind of children is Myrtle looking after?

4. Where does the group come to after 25 miles of marching?

5. Who does Potter dream about at dinner?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the group members keep their minds away from the hardships they witness and experience in Varna?

2. Describe Dr. Potter's hallucination.

3. In what way is Myrtle's character strengthened in the fourth chapter?

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

5. Summarize the fourth chapter.

6. How does Jones help the photographer balance his photograph?

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

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

9. Why does Dr. Potter think that heterosexuality is important?

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

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

Aside from the main characters, examine the way the author uses the other characters in the book. When does he introduce and take them away from the story? What effect does it have on the story?

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