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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 did Kathy see Miss Lucy doing in a quiet classroom at the beginning of chapter 8?
2. What does Ruth give the narrator in chapter 6 to replace her lost tape?
3. Why was often terribly cold in the farmhouse at the Cottages, as mentioned in chapter 10?
4. In whose room does Tommy admit in chapter 11 that he saw the narrator looking at similar magazines as the ones he finds her looking at in the boiler room in chapter 11?
5. Who admits to the students that she has indulged in the forbidden vice in chapter 6?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are the students normally given for artwork 'sold' at Hailsham? Are they given these by Madame?
2. What do Ruth and Kathy discuss about the art exchanges that often took place during their time at Hailsham?
3. Who sees Kathy dancing to her favorite song, "Never Let Me Go", in chapter 6?
4. What is one of the responsibilities of the caretaker at the Cottages, as Kathy describes in chapter 11?
5. What are the students at Hailsham told they will never be able to do in chapter 8?
6. What is stolen from Kathy's room in chapter 6?
7. In chapter 11, who catches Kathy looking at pornographic material? How does an older Kathy recall this made her feel?
8. What does Kathy imagine the song, "Never Let Me Go", is about?
9. Why does Kathy, in chapter 11, sneak away to take a look at some of the pornographic material she has found in the caretaker's confiscated collection?
10. What does Kathy notice about the behavior of the older residents at the Cottages?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
How is sex treated at Hailsham? How does Kathy respond to her own changing body and her physical desires? What relationship develops between Tommy and Ruth? Why does this relationship end temporarily when Miss Lucy tells Tommy that his art really was something important for him to concentrate on? How does Kathy respond to Tommy's revelation of Miss Lucy's changing advice? How do Tommy and Kathy respond when Miss Lucy suddenly leaves Hailsham? How do the other students react?
Essay Topic 3
What is human cloning? Is it a possibility? What purpose would human cloning serve, as represented in this novel? Would it be humane to treat clones as Kathy, Tommy, and Ruth were treated in this novel? What were the people at Hailsham attempting to prove about the clones? Did their experiment work? Why or why not?
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