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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 is the Goosehouse?

2. Where is the recovery center where Ruth is living during her donations?

3. In chapter 15, what do Kathy and Tommy talk about?

4. Who tells Chrissie and Rodney that the students at Hailsham were told about deferrals in chapter 13?

5. Why does the narrator go to Littlehampton in chapter 20?

Short Essay Questions

1. In chapter 18, how does Kathy become Ruth's carer? How does Ruth react to this?

2. What does Tommy tell Kathy in chapter 15 that he believes are the purpose of the art they were encouraged to do at Hailsham?

3. In chapter 12, why do Rodney and Chrissie invite Ruth to go on a trip to Norfolk with them? Who else will be going?

4. In chapter 16, what does Kathy tell the reader she had thought she and Tommy might do after the trip to Norfolk, but never did?

5. In chapter 13, Rodney and Chrissie ask Ruth, Tommy, and Kathy about what type of deferment?

6. In chapter 20, who does Kathy find at the address Ruth gave to Tommy for him to seek a deferral?

7. At the end of chapter 17, how does Kathy actively change her situation?

8. What warning does Ruth offer to Kathy in chapter 17 should she ever want to pursue a relationship with Tommy?

9. Why does Kathy constantly allow Ruth to indulge her fantasies even when she knows she is wrong?

10. What has Tommy begun to draw after the trip to Norfolk? What does Kathy initially think of these drawings?

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

What are Kathy, Tommy, and Ruth? How do they come to understand the truth of their situation? How much time passes between Kathy's time at the Cottage and her next meeting with Ruth? How does Ruth respond when she discovers that Kathy has become her carer? What do they talk about in the beginning of their reunion? Why do they go to see a marooned boat? Who do they take with them? What does this say about the relationship between Ruth and Kathy now?

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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