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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 Miss Lucy?

2. What does Laura teach the narrator in chapter 7 in order to discourage boys?

3. What was the secret guards evidence against the conspirators?

4. Why was the narrator kicked out of the secret guard?

5. What does the narrator tell the reader in chapter 2 was required of the students at Hailsham once a week?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was an important aspect of education at Hailsham?

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

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

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

5. What does Tommy tell Kathy that Miss Lucy told him that helped him to stop having so many fits of temper in chapter 3?

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

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

8. Where do Tommy, Ruth, and Kathy go after leaving Hailsham when they are sixteen?

9. 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?

10. What does Kathy imagine the song, "Never Let Me Go", is about?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In an essay, discuss the following elements as they exist and impact the developing plot in the early chapters of the novel:

1) Character

2) Setting

3) Point of view.

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

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.

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