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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 Dr. Barry tell Maurice about his troubles?
2. When Maurice returns home in Chapter 40, what do he and his mother do?
3. What day are Maurice and Scudder supposed to meet?
4. What does Maurice's grandfather invent?
5. What does Maurice expect will happen between him and Clive?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Maurice try to tell his grandfather but cannot? What does Maurice realize about life from his grandfather?
2. When Clive writes to Maurice after they break up, what does each letter say? What is uncharacteristic about Maurice and Clive's letters to one another during this time?
3. What does Alec's letter to Maurice say in Chapter 42? How does Maurice respond to this letter?
4. Why is Maurice suspicious of Alec? What does Lasker say about the letter Alec writes?
5. What information does Risley give Maurice about a famous composer? How does this information make Maurice feel?
6. When Maurice talks to the first doctor about his homosexuality, what does the doctor say? How does Maurice feel after seeing him?
7. When Maurice returns home from Penge, what does his mother want him to do? What does he receive during this time?
8. After Maurice sees Lasker for the last time, what does he decide about himself? How does he reconcile this?
9. When Maurice visits Penge in Chapter 34, why is he upset at first? Who is there to greet him?
10. What new thing did Maurice's grandfather invent? What is at the stem of this belief?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Think about Maurice's upbringing in the preparatory school up until college. Write an essay about the timetable of Maurice's awareness of his own sexuality, discussing how his school affects his feelings about this.
Essay Topic 2
After Maurice allows himself to pursue a relationship with Clive, his behavior changes. Examine this change in Maurice, providing at least three examples of his change in behavior towards others.
Essay Topic 3
Near the end of the novel, Mr. Borenius makes a rather long speech to Maurice about sexuality. What is the significance of this speech to both Maurice and the novel as a whole?
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