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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 Jean tell Tamar she must learn to do?

2. Who is the first speaker at the ball?

3. What does Violet suggest Tamar attends instead of Oxford University?

4. What does the author say Jean's hair glows like when she enters the room?

5. Who does Crimond think sent Tamar?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why do Gideon and Pat want to adopt Tamar?

3. Why does Tamar fall into a deep depression?

4. How does Rose help Jean when she arrives at her house injured?

5. What do the Gesellschaft group decide when they meet to discuss Crimond and his book?

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

7. How does Jenkin react to Tamar's confession?

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

9. What happens at Lily's house when first Tamar and then Gulliver visits her?

10. What impassioned spech does Jean give about her and Crimond's relationship?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the following and discuss how it affects the tone of the novel and helps to express character and theme:

1. Setting

2. Point of view

3. Structure

4. Language

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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

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