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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 are the last two items William adds to his kit from the equipment emporium?

2. What food do William, the French administrator, and the administrator's children reject while dining on the <i>Francmacon</i>?

3. What phrase does Corker tell William to cable back to London regarding Aden's military preparedness?

4. What word does William use to describe the captain's wife to Corker upon first meeting the latter?

5. To where does William walk after returning to his hotel, following the incident in Croydon?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mrs. Stitch persuade Lord Copper to seek out John Boot as the foreign war correspondent to Ishmaelia?

2. Why do the newspapers routinely return from the sickrooms "hopelessly mutilated" at Boot Magna Hall?

3. What is further revealed about William when he receives his first cable from the <i>Daily Beast</i>?

4. What are the names of two places named for General Cruttwell?

5. How do Mr. Salter and the Managing Editor decide to see which of the two will take the blame for not having a Boot present at Lord Copper's banquet?

6. What does William think about when he sees the unappetizing fish offered to him at lunch aboard the <i>Francmacon</i>?

7. What realization prompts Lord Copper to see himself as a lonely, deserted leader, having to make do for the incompetence of his subordinates?

8. How does Mrs. Stitch react to John Boot's perplexed inquiries regarding his invitation to knighthood?

9. Why has Mrs. Stitch ended up with her car unfortunately stuck after driving down a flight of stairs?

10. In what way is Uncle Theodore unlike any of Lord Copper's banquet guests of honor, before or after?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

An essential and amusing part of Evelyn Waugh's Scoop is the use of telegrams, or cables for short. Write an analytical essay on their significance to the story, both in terms of character development and of satirization of the newspaper industry. What do the cables demonstrate about the particular characters in the story? What do they tell the reader about the newspaper industry?

Essay Topic 2

As the protagonist of the story, William is the principle character around whom all of the novel's action revolves. Through action, the character of William is revealed. Analyze this revelation, explicating both the ways in which William changes from the beginning to the end of the story and the ways he remains the same. Describe his fundamental character traits and evaluate the presentation given of him in Scoop. What sort of character is he? Is the reader persuaded to view him sympathetically or not?

Essay Topic 3

An element of satire that is particularly prevalent in Evelyn Waugh's Scoop is irony. Compose an essay which demonstrates the prevalent usage of irony in the novel by discussing these points:

1) What is irony?

2) How can irony be comic?

3) What are examples of comic irony in Scoop?

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