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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 are Mary and Colin searching for in the morning?

2. How does Caroline define love?

3. What impresses Mary about the women of Venice?

4. What does Caroline confess to Mary?

5. Why do Robert's sisters put him in their father's study after he has eaten sweets?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Robert's first meeting with Caroline.

2. Describe the event that led Robert's sisters to despise him.

3. What is unusual about Robert's interactions with Mary and Colin in this chapter?

4. What do Robert's sisters feed him one afternoon? Why?

5. Describe Colin and Mary's nightly ritual (in the hotel room) before leaving for dinner

6. How does Robert's father react to him soiling his study? How does this make Robert feel?

7. What is the significance of the smell of cologne for Robert? Why?

8. How does Mary react to Colin when he wears the dressing gown? How is this different from his own reaction?

9. Describe Robert's father (as Robert presents him in this chapter)

10. How are Mary and Colin's views on feminism demonstrated through their reactions to a poster hanging on the wall of a Venice building?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the two main settings of the novel: Robert and Caroline's apartment and Mary and Colin's hotel room. Focus on:

1) the characteristics of the settings

2) the influence that the setting asserts on the plot of the novel

3) the ways that the setting reflects the characters "living" in it.

Cite several specific examples from the novel to support your ideas.

Essay Topic 2

The past is essential to Robert's development as a character. Discuss at least three events/people from the past that influenced Robert's character. Focus on describing the event as well as discussing how the event determined the person Robert becomes. Be sure to cite specific details from the novel to support your ideas.

Essay Topic 3

Throughout the novel Mary and Colin's relationship changes significantly. In your essay:

1) describe their relationship at the beginning of the novel.

2) describe their relationship at the end of the novel

3) discuss the changes that occur in their relationship

4) discuss what influences these changes.

Be sure to cite specific evidence from the novel to support your ideas.

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