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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 do Enid and Margery have to do to get across the river they encounter at the end of the east coast route in Chapter 50?

2. Why are the shantytown boys worry when Margery and Enid head toward the mountain?

3. What does Enid tell Margery she should change her name to when they start their new life in Borneo in Chapter 50?

4. How long are Enid and Margery trapped on the mountain in the midst of the storm?

5. Why do Margery and Enid have to leave the summer house they were hiding out in after Enid's surgery?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. Describe what happens when Mundic finds Margery and Enid at the end of the novel.

3. What is strange about Mr. Rawlings' behavior and what happens to him in Chapter 38?

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

5. What does Professor Smith do when Margery tells him of the golden beetle?

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

7. Why is Enid worried they will not be successful after Mr. Rawlings' death?

8. How does Mundic manage to find Margery and Enid's bungalow in Chapter 36?

9. Why do Enid and Margery have to run from Dolly's place in Chapter 50?

10. Why does the British consul soften up on Mundic after Mundic is brought to him for questioning?

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 discussing the setting and time period of Miss Benson's Beetle. In what ways does the time period and setting impact your understanding of the story as well as the themes?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay discussing the significance of war on Miss Benson's Beetle. How is Margery's life impacted by the first world war? How are all the character's lives impacted by the second world war? In what ways do the wars develop the novel's themes?

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