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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. Where does Patricia meet the American pilot?

2. Who purchases the site?

3. What war is taking place?

4. Where did Adam earn his promotion to Captain?

5. According to Adam's thinking, who will win the war between the Americans and the British?

Short Essay Questions

1. What sort of religious duplicity does Edward Shockley enact?

2. What enables Jane, unlike many women of the time, to avoid marriage and work toward her goals?

3. How does Ralph lose his position at the school?

4. What fortuitous event leads to Adam's marriage and relocation to America?

5. How is Stonehenge at one time private property and later property of the British government?

6. How do labor troubles lead to many convicts from Sarum being sent to Australia?

7. Why does Will go to the cathedral?

8. What major conflict is taking place in England, and who are the opposing sides?

9. In "Journey From Sarum," what major changes have occurred for John and Robert Wilson?

10. Despite success in their business deal, what sort of scandal erupts from Edward bringing Fleming to England?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the narrator's use of language in the novel Sarum. Is the language elevated to the poetic or is it the everyday language of people of Sarum in their various times in history? Do you find it equally easy to understand characters' language regardless of their time in history?

Essay Topic 2

Briefly explain the most significant political upheavals mentioned in the chapter "New World."

Essay Topic 3

The novel Sarum presents several themes. Pick one of the ongoing themes of the novel and discuss how it is portrayed throughout the story.

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