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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 is perfectly acceptable to do in the Authorized Child-Care Handbook?
2. Who does Stephen avoid saying goodbye to when he leaves the Darke house?
3. What does Stephen start to learn in addition to playing tennis regularly?
4. As Stephen thinks about what event, does he buy wrapping paper?
5. Who does Stephen think is Kate at the school?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Stephen realize after going to the school and not finding Kate?
2. Why does Stephen want to get out of the Prime Minister's car?
3. What is the unspoken rule that Stephen's father breaks when Stephen visits the family after meeting the Prime Minister?
4. How are Stephen's parents affected by the loss of Kate?
5. Why does the driver of the truck want Stephen to write down two notes?
6. 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?
7. How does Stephen spend Kate's birthday?
8. What does Stephen purchase for Kate's birthday and what does it signify to him?
9. Why does the young man at the subcommittee meeting believe that learning written languages at an early age is not a good idea?
10. What does Stephen discover about Charles when Thelma gives him directions to where Charles is in the woods?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The Child In Time is a classic dystopian novel. What does that classification entail? Why does this novel fit into this category?
Essay Topic 2
Certain relationships create a good foundation for the story. When Stephen asks his parents about his bicycle memory by the sea, they all interact in a very convincing manner.
Describe why this relationship is believable.
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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