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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 does Crimond want Jean to study?

2. What kind of school did Jean's father send her to?

3. What kind of world does Jean accuse Rose of living in?

4. Who does Tamar see Conrad dancing with?

5. What is Gideon's occupation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Gerard and Crimond discuss during their meeting about Crimond's book?

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

3. What reason does Crimond give for alienating his Oxford friends?

4. Why are the group worried about Jean?

5. Why do the group decide to support Crimond?

6. What happens in the meeting between the brotherhood and Crimond?

7. Why does Tamar fall into a deep depression?

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

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

10. Why is Crimond suspicious of Tamar when she visits Jean?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare Crimonds's character to the person he was at the beginning of the book to the person he is at the end:

1. What did Crimond hope to achieve at the beginning of the book?

2. What events changes Crimond's ideas about life?

3. How has Crimond's character changed by the end of the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Compare Duncan and Crimond:

1. What is their relationship to each other?

2. How are their ideas different?

3. How do their differences in opinion prove to be destructive?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the values of the 1980s.

1. In what ways are the characters a product of their time?

2. How does the novel express the changes Britain was going through at the time?

3. Does modern society share any values with 1980s Britain?

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