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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 Claire seem as her marriage to Newman grows closer?
2. What does Newman ask when Mrs. Bread requests to know more about Valentin's last hours?
3. Who reassures Newman that he is acting appropriately at his engagement party?
4. What role does Claire have in the church services at her convent?
5. Once Newman and Claire are engaged, what warning does Mrs. Bread give Newman?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the Bellegarde family react when Newman tells him that he and Claire are engaged?
2. What does Urbain's wife ask Newman to do during the opera?
3. What does Mrs. Tristam have to say about Claire and Newman's broken engagement?
4. In Chapter XIII, what does Newman notably compare Claire's mother's personality to?
5. What is Newman's original plan in confronting Urbain and Madame de Bellegarde about the way Claire's father died?
6. What kind of story does a duchess tell about Newman at this engagement party?
7. What does Mrs. Bread report the Bellegardes marriage was like?
8. How did Mrs. Bread get connected to the Bellegarde familiy?
9. What does Noemie tell Newman when he confronts her and her father at the Cafe de le Patrie?
10. What does Newman first tell the injured Valentin about Claire?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss at least 3 literary devices James uses within the first 3 chapters to help the reader better understand Newman as both a character and the protagonist. Make sure to use examples and/or quotations from the text to support your thesis.
Essay Topic 2
Describe at least 3 things that James is able to do with the character of Newman because he is a man AND at least 3 things he is *not* able to do with Newman because he is a man.
Essay Topic 3
In a well-written essay, discuss the role that Noemie's father plays in the novel and at least one major benefit and challenge for James in including him.
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