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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 are the ages of the Junior classes at Hailsham?

2. What difference did the narrator begin to note in Tommy during their Senior 2 year, as described in chapter 2?

3. What trip does the narrator foreshadow at the end of chapter 11?

4. Who suggests that Kathy might be Tommy's next girlfriend in chapter 9?

5. Who calls Tommy an idiot in chapter 1 for not seeing that the boys are going to ignore him while picking players for the sports team?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is stolen from Kathy's room in chapter 6?

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

3. Upon first meeting Ruth, as described in chapter 4, what do Ruth and Kathy do together?

4. How does Miss Lucy react when she overhears the students at Hailsham discussing their futures in chapter 7?

5. What does Kathy notice about the behavior of the older residents at the Cottages?

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

7. What does Tommy reveal to Kathy in chapter 9 that Miss Lucy has told him, causing him to once again begin having fits of temper again as well as ending his relationship with Ruth?

8. In chapter 8, what does Kathy see Miss Lucy doing that makes her think the woman is sinister?

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

10. What does Kathy do for a living? What privileges has she been given as a result of being good at her job?

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

Discuss point of view. What point of view is used in this novel? How does this point of view impact the overall tone and feel of the book? How might the novel be different if it had been narrated by Ruth or Tommy or Miss Lucy? How might the novel be different if the author had used a third person point of view?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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