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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 Jean's father live?

2. Who found Tamar a job?

3. What was Tamar's second love affair inspired by?

4. What does Crimond say Tamar came as?

5. What city does Gideon spend most of his time in?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Crimond respond to Jean's impassioned speech?

2. What is Gulliver and Lily's relationship at the beginning?

3. What does Gerard propose to Jenkin when Jenkin tells him Crimond has finished his book?

4. How do Crimond and Jean plan to kill themselves?

5. Why does the group's attitude towards Crimond start to change?

6. Why does Tamar fall into a deep depression?

7. Why are Jenkin and Gerard worried for Jean's safety?

8. How do Tamar and Duncan end up sleeping together?

9. Why does Jean decide to leave Duncan for the second time?

10. Why do the group decide to support Crimond?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did Karl Marx view world? What impact has his philosophy had on world history? Has that impact been mainly positive, or mainly negative?

Essay Topic 2

Replace the play's setting with one of the following settings.

1. France.

2. USA.

3. Ireland.

What new meaning would the new setting give the book? How important is setting for developing meaning in a story?

Essay Topic 3

Choose one of the following and examine it what expresses about mid-1980s British society:

1. Teenage pregnancy.

2. The need to find the right person.

3. Losing sight of one's beliefs.

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