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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 Cora do as the man she helps rescue the sheep just walks away?

2. What is World's End?

3. How long does Charles declare Cora would last living in Aldwinter?

4. What does Charles Ambrose believe helps to keep society in check and stops it from destroying itself?

5. Why does Spencer read Cora's letters to Luke?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Francis insist on doing immediately after the funeral services of Michael Seaborne?

2. What character is introduced reciting the parts of the human heart?

3. What is the Flying Dutchman that Cora and William saw while walking?

4. What was Spencer, Luke Garrett's closest friend, considered to be by their former classmates?

5. What did Stella find in Aldwinter that kept her entertained and happy?

6. Reverend Willliam Ransome was the Rector of what parish?

7. What did Cracknell's Gog and Magog provide him and Mrs. Ransome?

8. Luke Garrett was the first person to successfully complete what type of surgery in London?

9. Whom did Naomi believe to have webbed hands like her own?

10. What caused the naturalist, Mary Anning, to begin her studies of the natural sciences?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Cora is accused of being a solipsist. Solipsist is defined as a theory in which only the self is proven to exist and includes a preoccupation of one's own feelings and desires; egotistical. Discuss your opinion of the theory and how it relates to Cora.

Essay Topic 2

Francis, at the end of the novel, is away at school and writes his mother regularly. Explain the change in his behavior and discuss why the author chose to present him in this manner.

Essay Topic 3

Luke Garret performs heart surgery, and in the novel is the first doctor to perform surgery successfully. Discuss the changes medical science has made over the last 150 years, and how one person's courage—and arrogance—can change the course of history, using references to the novel to support your claims.

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