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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 name her daughter?

2. What are Nancy Collet and her husband "surrounded by" (193) in the photo of them in The Sunday Mail?

3. What does Enid yell to Mr. Rawlings in Chapter 38 when he runs off barking as they near the bottom of the mountain?

4. What illness did Margery's aunts die from?

5. What does Enid tell Margery she stole from Taylor before leaving him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens between Margery and the Professor when she tells him she has the money to fund their expedition to New Caledonia?

2. What does Enid confess to Margery about herself and her marriage on their fourth trek up the mountain in Chapter 36?

3. Describe Mundic's physical and mental health in Chapter 45 around when he finds the bungalow while Enid is in labor?

4. What is Margery's role during Enid's labor in Chapter 44?

5. What are some of the signs in Chapter 46 that Enid is not well after giving birth to Gloria?

6. What does Margery tell Enid about her relationship with the Professor in Chapter 38?

7. How does Margery react when Enid asks her if she would feel more comfortable if they kept Taylor's gun? What does Enid do with the gun?

8. Why did Mundic kill Mr. Rawlings?

9. How does Mundic react when Mrs. Pope tells him Margery and Enid left for the mountain weeks ago in Chapter 34?

10. What do Mrs. Pope and her friends discuss at her Friday crafting gathering in Chapter 29?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay examining guns as a symbol in Miss Benson's Beetle. In what scenes do guns appear? What is the context? How do guns develop the narrative?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay analyzing Joyce's commentary on gender in Miss Benson's Beetle. How is Margery’s gender important to the story? How does it impact the narrative? Use textual evidence to explain your analysis.

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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