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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 is the new word which Josephine learns and uses to describe many things to John Boot?

2. How does Mr. Salter always answer Lord Copper when the latter is incorrect?

3. When William first arrives at the Megalopolitan building, he finds it:

4. What does the Swiss waiter attempt to persuade William's companion in the train to purchase?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the Boot family think about Mr. Salter when he arrives at Boot Magna Hall?

3. 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?

4. What is Corker's chief complaint about the journalistic profession in Jacksonburg, as he tells William just after using the latter's toothbrush?

5. How do the guests of Lord Copper's banquet amuse themselves while Lord Copper delivers his 38-minute speech?

6. What characterizes the speech of the black Ishmaelian speaking in Hyde Park when William takes a walk through?

7. What greatly inconveniences William on his arrival in Paris?

8. How is William able to send his second big story to the <i>Daily Beast</i> after the Soviet coup?

9. By what misunderstanding is William Boot mistaken for the Boot that Lord Copper asked Mr. Salter to find?

10. How does William avoid meeting with any of the important members of the <i>Daily Beast</i> when he arrives in London?

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

In a carefully developed analytical essay, define satire, explain how a work of fiction may be satirical, and then demonstrate how Evelyn Waugh's Scoop is a satirical novel. Which characters and actions are satirical in nature? What is satirized and how? How are the elements of satire (irony, sarcasm, exaggeration, contrast) employed by Waugh?

Essay Topic 3

As the organ which puts the whole story in motion, The Daily Beast is of central importance both to the plot and the satire of Evelyn Waugh's Scoop. In an analytical essay, describe and evaluate the commercial machinations of The Daily Beast, focusing on how it is portrayed to be ridiculous. What is ironic about the paper? What is implied about the newspaper industry by the Beast serving as an exemplar? How do characters act towards the company?

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