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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Clive become ill with after his bar exams?
(a) Influenza.
(b) Consumption.
(c) Scarlet Fever.
(d) Measles.

2. Why does Mr. Ducie want to talk to Maurice in the first chapter?
(a) He wants to give him the "good talk".
(b) He wants to tell him about his father.
(c) He wants to tell him about high school.
(d) He wants to make sure he is ready to graduate.

3. What is Sunnington?
(a) Maurice's prep school.
(b) Maurice's college.
(c) Maurice's high school.
(d) Maurice's family home.

4. Finish this line from Chapter 12: "But _____ meant so much to him he forgot that they were a bewilderment to others."
(a) Books.
(b) Manners.
(c) Apologies.
(d) Words.

5. Whom does Maurice meet during a lunch with the Dean?
(a) The Dean's wife.
(b) Chapman.
(c) Agatha.
(d) Risley.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, what is Maurice's first dream about?

2. How long do Maurice and Durham go without speaking in Chapter 10?

3. What is Maurice's signal that Durham loves him as well?

4. After Maurice tells Durham he read the Symposium, what does Durham do?

5. What is the name of the Durham family home?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Clive comes back from Greece, where does he go first? Who is the first person he sees there?

2. Over Easter Vacation, whom does Maurice date? Why does their relationship end?

3. What is the name of Clive's family home? How is Clive's family different from Maurice's?

4. During a lunch with the Dean, whom does Maurice meet? What does he like about this person?

5. When Durham and Maurice talk, how do they sit? What does Maurice do to Durham?

6. How old is Maurice when Mr. Ducie talks to him on the beach? What is Maurice's reaction to Mr. Ducie's talk?

7. When Mr. Ducie talks to Maurice in Chapter 1, what does he talk about? What does he do to help illustrate his point?

8. When Durham finds out Maurice read the Symposium, what does he say to him? What is Maurice's reaction?

9. When Clive collapses at the Halls', what does Maurice do unexpectedly? How does he explain this to his mother?

10. What does Clive's mother question Maurice about? How does this affect Maurice?

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