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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 kind of drawings does the narrator find Tommy making in chapter 20?
2. What is the Black Barn?
3. In chapter 12, what subject does the narrator say Rodney talked about a lot?
4. What is the definition of a possible as described by the narrator in chapter 12?
5. In the beginning of chapter 18, the narrator tells the reader what is one of the most difficult parts of working as a carer?
Short Essay Questions
1. How has Kathy's life changed in the year that has passed between chapters 19 and 20?
2. Why does Kathy constantly allow Ruth to indulge her fantasies even when she knows she is wrong?
3. In chapter 18, how does Kathy become Ruth's carer? How does Ruth react to this?
4. In chapter 16, Ruth becomes annoyed with Kathy and forces her to say that she thinks Tommy's drawings are childish, something Ruth later tells Tommy. What causes this change in Ruth's feelings toward Kathy and Tommy?
5. In chapter 15, who does Rodney and Chrissie want to visit that Kathy refuses to see? For what reason?
6. In chapter 21, what does Tommy tell Madame he has come to her to ask for?
7. In chapter 13, what excuse does Ruth give to Rodney and Chrissie for Tommy's refusal to agree that there is a deferment program for lovers?
8. How does Ruth react to the sight of her possible? How does she, and the others, come to believe this woman could not be her possible?
9. In chapter 18, how does Kathy learn that Ruth has begun her donations?
10. What does Kathy decide not to tell Ruth at the end of chapter 15?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is human cloning? Is it a possibility? What purpose would human cloning serve, as represented in this novel? Would it be humane to treat clones as Kathy, Tommy, and Ruth were treated in this novel? What were the people at Hailsham attempting to prove about the clones? Did their experiment work? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
Why does Ruth become obsessed with her possible that Rodney and Chrissie believe they saw in Norfolk? What does Ruth hope to see or learn from this woman? How does Ruth respond to the realization that this woman is more than likely not her possible? What does Ruth's overall interest in this woman say about who she is, what her purpose is, and how she feels about this aspect of her life?
Essay Topic 3
How is sex treated at Hailsham? How does Kathy respond to her own changing body and her physical desires? What relationship develops between Tommy and Ruth? Why does this relationship end temporarily when Miss Lucy tells Tommy that his art really was something important for him to concentrate on? How does Kathy respond to Tommy's revelation of Miss Lucy's changing advice? How do Tommy and Kathy respond when Miss Lucy suddenly leaves Hailsham? How do the other students react?
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