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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 Robin do as John plays a tune on the harp?
2. What does Robin pretend to do when Ellen arrives in Section 1?
3. Why does Robin become angry at the young man in Section 2 for teasing him?
4. Who or what does Robin initially blame for his accident in Section 3?
5. What is part of Brother Luke’s position at the monastery that Robin finds fascinating?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Brother Luke say about the stars, and what does he question as a result?
2. Explain Robin’s secret in Section 4. What can he now do, and what does this show?
3. What is expected of Robin, in terms of his future, and why is this at risk?
4. At the end of Section 1, Robin wonders what he has to be thankful for. What should he be thankful for, and what does this show about Robin at this point in the novel?
5. Describe what happens to cause Robin’s outburst in Section 3, and Brother Matthew’s response.
6. Explain what Brother Luke means when he says reading is another door in the wall.
7. What does John de Bureford write in his letter to Robin? What does this mean for the young man?
8. What does John-go-in-the-Wynd bring back for Robin in Section 5, and what is its significance to the novel, and to Robin?
9. Describe the first morning on the road in Section 5. What did the group eat, and who did they meet?
10. Describe what Robin sees and hears during his first days at St. Mark’s.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Choose any character from the novel, and explain his or her role in the story. How do they interact with other characters? What lesson do they teach? Why did the author choose to include them? What is his or her class? His or her background? How does this tie into the story?
Essay Topic 2
Food plays an important role in the novel. How does food force Robin into accepting Brother Luke in the beginning of the novel? How does Brother Luke entice Robin to eat as he is preoccupied with whittling? When Brother Luke, Robin, and John all stop to eat after traveling all day, Robin mentions “hunger sauced it better than the finest cook could have done” (pg. 52). What does this mean? What does hunger teach Robin? How is food used to gain Robin a friend in D’Ath? How is food used by John’s mother in the novel? How is it used to celebrate at the end of the novel?
Essay Topic 3
Explain what happens to Robin’s parents at the beginning of the novel, and describe their reappearance later in the novel. Do you think his parents were right to leave him alone, with only the servants? Do you think this is common, during the time of the novel? How did Robin feel about his parents’ departure? How does he feel at the end of the novel, when they return?
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