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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. How does Merivel treat Pearce?
2. What does Merivel do most of the day while he is ill?
3. What do the men in the George Fox building make?
4. What is unusual about Merivel's sexual encounter with Katherine?
5. What medical practice does Merivel perform regularly at the hospital?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Merivel offer Finn?
2. How does Merivel treat Katherine on their journey?
3. What does the staff of the hospital decide to do because of the plague?
4. What does the King advise Merivel to do with his life?
5. How are the most insane patients treated?
6. What does Merivel discover when he examines Pearce?
7. What happens when Merivel illicitly visits Katherine?
8. What prompts Katherine to try to hang herself?
9. How does Katherine react to the world outside the hospital?
10. How does Will feel about his master leaving?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the novel's treatment of women.
1) How does the novel portray women? What role do women hold in the society, and how does their societal role affect their behavior and personalities?
2) How do the male characters perceive and react to women? What do the male characters think of women, and how do they treat women?
3) How does the author perceive women? How can you distinguish between the characters' perceptions and the author's perception?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss fate in the novel.
1) Is Merivel in control of his own destiny? How is Merivel governed by fate in the novel?
2) What determines the fates of the rich and the poor in the novel? Why do characters seem to lack control over their own destinies?
3) Discuss Merivel's rescue of the woman from the burning building. Is Merivel a hero for having saved the woman? How is this incident governed by fate? How does Merivel benefit from it?
Essay Topic 3
Merivel experiences different types of lives in the novel. He lives in the King's Court. He lives in a manor as a Lord. He also lives in a mental hospital, and in Cheapside, an impoverished area of London. In these different ways of life, Merivel finds differnt kinds of fulfillment and happiness. Discuss fulfillment and happiness in the novel.
1) Where is Merivel most fulfilled and happiness? Why?
2) Compare Merivel's happiness in the presence of the King to his happiness in the presence of Pearce. What different types of fulfillment do Merivel's most valued friends provide him?
3) How does Merivel's perception of what will make him happy change over the course of the novel?
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