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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 did Margery do during their meeting that upset Mr. Mundic?
2. What British news do the ladies at the garden party ask Margery about in Chapter 21?
3. What does Margery do for Enid in an attempt to care for her in Chapter 12?
4. What is the third problem Margery encounters when they arrive in Noumea in Chapter 18?
5. What does Margery ask Enid to stop doing after the cop lets them go in Chapter 23?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Enid do when Margery tells her that her missing Gladstone bag has all of the equipment she needs in Chapter 19?
2. What does Margery think when she sees the golden beetle in her father's book Incredible Creatures, and what does she decide she will do after her father leaves the room?
3. How does Enid help Margery board the plane in Chapter 17, "Two Pairs of Wings"?
4. Why do Enid and Margery have to sleep in their jeep the first day they arrive in Poum?
5. How does Margery react when Enid comes to their cabin door covered in blood at the start of Chapter 12?
6. Why was Enid's husband unable to go to war despite having gone to military training?
7. What does Margery place an ad in the newspaper for the day after she walks out of her job in Chapter 2?
8. How does Margery learn that Enid stole equipment from the Catholic school?
9. How does Mundic manage to get a cabin on the ship Enid and Margery are on?
10. How does Margery ultimately realize her brother's died in 1914?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write a brief essay analyzing Joyce's choice to write Miss Benson's Beetle in past tense. Do you agree with this choice? How would the story be different if written in a different tense?
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay analyzing the narrative structure of Miss Benson's Beetle. What effect does this have on the story and the reader? Use direct examples from the story to support your analysis.
Essay Topic 3
Write a character analysis of Mundic in Miss Benson's Beetle. Is he a protagonist or antagonist? Focus your analysis on the character's psychology. Describe Mundic's internal anguish. Is he a danger? If so, to whom? In what ways does Mundic's behavior deviate from societal norms? How has the war impacted Mundic's sense of reality? Why is Mundic's story significant to the overall storyline in Miss Bensons's Beetle?
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