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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 does Fevvers pose as after she grows her wings?

2. What does a clown have to do regardless?

3. Who does Fevvers send her money to?

4. What does Walser compare Fevvers' room to?

5. What color is Fevvers body and wings powdered?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how Fevvers learns to fly?

2. Describe the chimp's act.

3. What does Fevver do during her first seven years at the brothel

4. What is clown alley?

5. What is the real reason Walser has come to interview Fevvers?

6. Describe the clown's interaction with each other.

7. How does darkness play an important part in book 1, chapter 4?

8. In what way is does book, chapter 3 center around the female characters?

9. Describe Mignon's life story.

10. In what way do you think it is significant that Walser is a clown?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Night at the Circus is mostly written in the third person. Why do you think Carter chose to write the story in the third person? How do you think the meaning of the story would of changed if it was written in the first person?Why does Carter switch to a first person point of view near the end? What does this express about Fevvers? Do you think Carter had to switch to first person to express this?

Essay Topic 2

Look at the novel's characterization. How well drawn do you think Carter's characters are? Select one of the minor characters such as Buffot the Great and discuss how much you know about his background. In what ways does Carter provide the reader with information about that character?

Essay Topic 3

Choose one of the characters from the novel.

1) What is the character's background.

2) What is the character's motivation and goals?

3) What do you think the character adds to the story? How would the story change if the character was taken away?

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