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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. Why do Peter and Gordon say they want to go to America in chapter 7?
2. 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?
3. What are Sales?
4. What does the narrator tell the reader in chapter 2 was required of the students at Hailsham once a week?
5. What work of art did Tommy create as a joke that began his torment from other students, as described in chapter 2?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Kathy do for a living? What privileges has she been given as a result of being good at her job?
2. Upon first meeting Ruth, as described in chapter 4, what do Ruth and Kathy do together?
3. What does Kathy notice about the behavior of the older residents at the Cottages?
4. In chapter 10, what does Ruth accuse Kathy of being jealous of?
5. What does Kathy do to prepare in chapter 8 for what she believes will be her first sexual experience?
6. How does Kathy know Tommy and Ruth when she requests to become their carer?
7. What are the students normally given for artwork 'sold' at Hailsham? Are they given these by Madame?
8. What change in attitude does Kathy remember noticing in Tommy during their days at Hailsham?
9. What often causes Tommy, as a child, to have a fit of temper?
10. What was an important aspect of education at Hailsham?
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
Ruth and Kathy have a falling out after returning from Norfolk. What causes Ruth to become unhappy with Kathy? How does she react to this object? Why does she get Kathy to say that she thinks Tommy's drawings are childish and amateurish? Does Kathy really believe this? Why does Ruth tell Tommy this? What happens after this episode? How does Kathy find herself separated from her friends?
Essay Topic 3
What does Tommy tell Kathy that Miss Lucy talked to him about that helped him curb his anger? Why did this help Tommy curb his anger? What is the relationship between Tommy and Kathy? Why does Tommy often make Kathy his confidant? How does Tommy react when Kathy tries to help him get close to Ruth? What is foreshadowed about this relationship while Tommy and Kathy are still at Hailsham?
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