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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 Stephen watch in the evenings at his house?
2. What does Stephen notice as a change in his parents when he visits them after attending the subcommittee meeting?
3. What does the driver of the truck want Stephen to do for him?
4. What is Stephen supposed to do with the book?
5. What is perfectly acceptable to do in the Authorized Child-Care Handbook?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does the handbook excerpt say that it is acceptable to bribe children for good behavior?
2. How does Stephen survive the crash with the truck?
3. When Stephen talks about his bicycle memory near the sea, how do his parents respond?
4. How does Stephen respond to the Prime Minister's secretary's request for a second meeting?
5. When Morely gives Stephen the book, what does it reveal about the government, subcommittees, and the actual research?
6. When the chauffeur arrives to pick up Stephen, how does he respond to Stephen's comments about the ragged car?
7. What does Stephen discover about Charles when Thelma gives him directions to where Charles is in the woods?
8. What happens when Stephen demands that the chauffeur stop the car?
9. How does the headmaster respond when Stephen tells his story about Kate?
10. What did Stephen become interested in when his mother had insisted that he take a nap in the middle of the day as a child?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
McEwan uses more than one iteration on the motif of grief and loss. Identify at least two motifs about grief and loss in the book. Then, cite an example to support each answer.
Essay Topic 2
Describe Thelma. What is her role in the story? What was McEwan trying to accomplish by creating Thelma's character in the novel?
Essay Topic 3
McEwan uses more than one iteration on the motif of children's education. Identify at least two motifs about children's education in the book. Then cite an example to support each answer.
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