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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. Who helps Tamar clean up her mother's filthy apartment?

2. Who is Jenkin thinking about while Tamar confesses her secret?

3. What does Tamar resume in this section?

4. Who does Crimond tell Jean is his weakness?

5. What do Jean and Duncan promise to help each other work towards?

Short Essay Questions

1. What news does Jean hear about Duncan from Tamar?

2. What do Rose and Gerard think about past events?

3. What have Duncan and Jean promised each other they will try to achieve?

4. How does Duncan react to Jenkin's death?

5. What news does Duncan hear from Crimond?

6. Why does Gerard vow to take care of Rose?

7. How has Christianity helped Tamar?

8. Why is Jean happy Duncan has been unfaithful to her?

9. What does Crimond's treatment of Jean and his proposal to Rose say about his character?

10. How has Duncan's character changed?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Examine Marxist's life:

1) What are Marxists and how do they view life?

2) What influence have Marxists had on popular culture?

3) How does the author express both the negative and positive aspects of Marxism in the novel?

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