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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 Stephen travel to see Julie?

2. What is Stephen's first book called, originally?

3. When Stephen is worried that Kate might come when he is gone, what does his friend leave behind to comfort him?

4. Where does Julie work?

5. Who invites Stephen to her house on Eaton Square after the resignation?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hashish become Lemonade?

2. What fear do the police instill in Stephen by mentioning the docks?

3. Why did Stephen take Kate to the market alone?

4. How does Stephen look for Kate when she disappears?

5. How does Stephen view the sex that he had with Julie in the months afterward?

6. When Julie came back from Chilterns, why were she and Stephen only able to stay together briefly?

7. What does Stephen see at The Bell, and how does it affect him?

8. How is Kate attired the day she is missing?

9. How is Julie described in Chapter 1?

10. How does Julie deal with the loss of Kate by the end of Chapter 1?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Child In Time is written primarily in the third-person point of view. Is this point of view more or less effective than telling the story from the first-person perspective?

Essay Topic 2

The Prime Minister and Charles are two important characters that interact and experience a secret relationship together.

Part 1) What is their relationship? How do they co-exist and how do they interact? What is similar about them and what is different?

Part 2) What are some events that the Prime Minister had a direct influence upon? What are some events that Charles had a direct influence upon?

Part 3) Which character offers support to the group? Which one is stronger and why? What happens to each character?

Essay Topic 3

Love is a recurring theme in The Child In Time. How does Julie's feelings about love change from the beginning of the novel to its end? In what ways has she expanded her awareness and beliefs? Is sexuality connected to love for Julie? How does her feelings for Stephen develop and change and how does her relationship with him contrast with that of other men that she has had romantic or an idealized relationship with?

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