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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 the narrator say the students used their tokens on?

2. What book is the narrator reading in chapter 10 that Ruth rudely begins to describe the plot of to her?

3. In chapter 11, what does the narrator define courses as?

4. What is the Lost Corner?

5. In what room was the art displayed for Madame?

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

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

4. What does Kathy do to prepare in chapter 8 for what she believes will be her first sexual experience?

5. How does Kathy think Madame feels about the students at Hailsham? What does she do about it?

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

7. What are the students normally given for artwork 'sold' at Hailsham? Are they given these by Madame?

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

9. As the students at Hailsham grow older, what becomes the main subjects of discussion?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is Kathy? What does she do for a living? What is meant by the term carer? What is a donor? How long has Kathy been working at this career? Why does she think she is better at it than others? Is she? Where did Kathy's donor, whom she is caring for at the beginning of the book, grow up? Where did Kathy grow up? How do the two locations compare? How do they differ?

Essay Topic 2

At Halisham, the students appear to take on different aspects of behavior as they become involved with different groups of students. Later, Kathy notes that many of the residents of the Cottage appear to take clues about behavior from television. Is this normal behavior? Why do the students seem to learn behavior from outside influences rather than instinctively from their own personalities? How do these early hints at Hailsham suggest something special about these students?

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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