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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. Who is Judy Bridgewater?

2. What does the narrator tell the reader unzipping meant to the students at Hailsham in chapter 7?

3. Who did the narrator once see giving a speech to an imaginary classroom, as described in chapter 4?

4. Who does the narrator continuously refer to as the veterans in chapter 10?

5. Who is Keffers?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who tells the students that there is something about Madame and their artwork that they are not being told?

2. What change in attitude does Kathy remember noticing in Tommy during their days at Hailsham?

3. What are the students at Hailsham told they will never be able to do in chapter 8?

4. What was the purpose of the secret guard? Who ran it?

5. What often causes Tommy, as a child, to have a fit of temper?

6. Where does Ruth tell everyone she got a pencil case she shows off in chapter 5? Where does Kathy suspect she really got the case?

7. In chapter 10, what does Ruth accuse Kathy of being jealous of?

8. What do Ruth and Kathy discuss about the art exchanges that often took place during their time at Hailsham?

9. What is one of the responsibilities of the caretaker at the Cottages, as Kathy describes in chapter 11?

10. In chapter 6, how does Kathy keep another girl from learning the truth about Ruth's pencil case?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss one of the following in detail, citing examples from the novel to support your conclusions:

1) Character motivation

2) Character relationships

3) Character traits.

Essay Topic 2

What is the Cottages? Why do Ruth, Tommy and Kathy move there? What do the older residents at the Cottages teach these three? What social problems does Kathy have at the Cottages? What desires does she feel that causes her to feel different from those around her? How are Ruth and Tommy treated at the Cottages? Does this cause tension between Kathy and Ruth? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

Why did Tommy often get picked last for sports teams? How did he react to this slight? Why did Tommy stop working at his art? Who told Tommy his art was not important? Why did this person later tell Tommy that the art was really very important? What does Tommy come to believe is the point of the art the students are encouraged to do at Hailsham? Why does Tommy believe this? How does Tommy react when he comes to realize the truth about the students' are at Hailsham?

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