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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 Enid wear while she cleans the bungalow in Chapter 25?
2. What is Margery's father's name?
3. What does Margery tell Enid Pretty to avoid packing when she writes her a letter offering her the job?
4. What does Enid tell Margery just three days before they arrive in Brisbane?
5. What does Mr. Mundic tell Margery about himself when she first meets him?
Short Essay Questions
1. Chapter 22 describes how information on Nancy Collett was all over the British newspapers. What information do they have so far about Nancy and her accomplice?
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. Why do Enid and Margery have to sleep in their jeep the first day they arrive in Poum?
4. What does the bungalow look like when Margery and Enid first arrive there in Chapter 25?
5. How does Margery learn that Enid stole the old army jeep they are driving in Chapter 23?
6. What happens in their cabin on the boat that makes Margery decide she does not trust Enid and will find a new assistant?
7. How does Margery react when Enid comes to their cabin door covered in blood at the start of Chapter 12?
8. Why was Enid's husband unable to go to war despite having gone to military training?
9. How does Margery ultimately realize her brother's died in 1914?
10. Why does Margery tell Enid that "the post is no longer available" (42) when she first meets her at Fenchurch Station in Chapter 7?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay analyzing Joyce's decision to use third person point-of-view in Miss Benson's Beetle. How does this impact the reader's understanding of the story's events? Is this effective? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
Miss Benson's Beetle incorporate both comedic and tragic elements. Write an essay discussing how these elements are used in the novel. How does combining these elements impact the reader's experience? Use textual evidence to support your discussion.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay analyzing narrative voice in Rachel Joyce's Miss Benson's Beetle. Include thoughts on how the narrative voice of the novel is effective in conveying the story’s themes of friendship, female identity, ambition, and endurance.
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