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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 condition causes Ambrose to go abroad in the winters?
2. How old was Ambrose when Rachel met him?
3. What strikes Philip as the only thing that is large about Rachel when he first meets her?
4. What reason does Rainaldi give Philip for his not having been told about Ambrose's illness?
5. Why did Ambrose dismiss Philip's nurse when he was a child?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did Ambrose start travelling during the winter months?
2. Why does Philip think Rainaldi looked shocked when they first met?
3. Why does Louise say that Philip must have the house cleaned up before Rachel visits?
4. Why does Rainaldi think that Rachel will never return to Italy?
5. What does the servant at the villa tell Philip was Ambrose's and Rachel's normal routine in the summer?
6. Why does Nick Kendall suggest that Ambrose may have been drunk when he reads a letter Philip received from him?
7. What does Philip intend to do when Rachel comes to see him?
8. How did Ambrose say that Rachel is related to the Ashley family?
9. Why does Nick Kendall think it was wrong for Ambrose to have brought Philip up without women in his life?
10. What reason does Philip give Rachel for not hating her now that he has met her?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What makes Philip an unreliable narrator? Why did the author choose him as the narrator? How does it impact the information the author imparts?
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay discussing good and evil in the novel. How does the author challenge the reader’s notion of what is good and evil? In the end, which of the characters is good and which is evil?
Essay Topic 3
Explain why the author begins the book with the story of Philip seeing the hanged man and why she refers back to it in the final chapter. What does the hanged man have to do with Philip’s experience with Rachel? What does the author hope to convey to the reader through the hanged man and Philip’s reaction to him?
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