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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. Whom does Richard find on Dolly's couch when he helps her home in Section 5, Volume 1?

2. What is Marie uncomfortable about regarding her physical appearance?

3. How is Juliet and Christophe's initial reunion described in the book?

4. What does Marcel tell his mother he was out all night doing in Section 4, Volume 1?

5. How does Juliet react when Marcel declines her attempt at seducing him in Section 5, Volume 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Marie's appearance described when she goes to the opera to be presented?

2. What does Christophe tell Marcel happened to him when he first arrived in Paris?

3. How is Marcel expelled from his school at the beginning of the book?

4. What happens when the men learn Michael has contracted yellow fever?

5. How are Richard's feelings towards Marie first described?

6. How is Marcel and Christophe's first meeting described?

7. How does Marcel react when Christophe tells him Michael is returning to Paris is Section 6, Volume 1?

8. What is the nature of Marcel and Richard's conversation regarding Marie at the end of Section 5, Volume 1?

9. What does Jean Jacques teach Marcel regarding his people?

10. How does Marcel try to learn to read in Section 3, Volume 1?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the presence of deception in the book. What can we learn about the nature of Philippe based on his continuous acts of deception towards the book's characters, especially his children? What message might the author be trying to send regarding the nature of white gentlemen based on the presence of deceptive behavior from them in the book?

Essay Topic 2

For many of the book's characters, physical appearance plays an important role in the way they are viewed in society.

Part 1) What impact does having a beautiful physical appearance have on Marie?

Part 2) What appears to be the desires of women of color regarding their physical appearance in the book, and why do you think they feel this way?

Part 3) How do the views of the women of color in the book about their physical appearance present an ironic condition for them to live in, in other words, how do they create more problems for themselves because of their actions towards physical appearance?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the creation of progress that is presented in the book. What efforts do the book's characters make to create progress for their own success and who was most successful in this venture?

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