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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. Which Christan denomination do Captain Edward Ashbunham's parents follow?
2. After the trip to Monte Carlo and during his reunion with his military regiment, Captain Edward Ashburnham forms a romantic attachment to which of the following women:
3. What does John Hurlbird want to be done with the money his family would inherit from his death?
4. What does Miss Florence Hurlbird want to do with the money that results from John Hurlbird's death?
5. Where does Nancy Rufford live before she begins living with the Ashburnhams?
Short Essay Questions
1. Do you think Nancy is a good judge of character?
2. Given Captain Edward Ashburnham's adulterous history, why does Leonora Ashburnham send Edward and Nancy to a concert together?
3. What must Nancy reject in order to make her decision to meet her mother in Glasgow?
4. Of what significance is the discovery that John Hurlbird's heart disease was a misdiagnosis?
5. In Part 4, Chapter 5, John Dowell claims that he is jealous of Leonora Ashburnham. What reason does John have for being jealous of Leonora?
6. Why do you suppose Leonora Ashburnham never turned to her family for advice on her marriage?
7. How has Captain Edward Ashburnham changed since his youth?
8. Of all the characters presented thus far in the book, who is the most right-minded?
9. In Part 3, Chapter 4, John Dowell describes many unfortunate circumstances that contributed to the downfall of the Ashburnham marriage. With John's sympathetic portrait of the Ashburnhams in mind, do you think unfortunate circumstances are to blame for the destruction of the Ashburnham marriage or are the Ashburnhams themselves to blame for its downfall?
10. In Part 4, Chapter 1, what is John Dowell's motivation for blaming both Leonora Ashburnham and Florence Dowell for the downfall of the Ashburnham marriage and not Captain Edward Ashburnham?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare and contrast The Good Soldier's main characters: John Dowell, Florence Dowell, Leonora Ashburnham, and Nancy Rufford. Of these characters, who is the most morally righteous? Who is the most enlightened? Determine the identity of the novel's hero, or whether the novel has a hero at all. In your assessment consider the following questions: does Ford seem to sympathize with any of these characters more than the others? What qualities make one of these characters "better" than the others? Who, if anyone, does Ford believe one should model his behavior after? If Ford indeed elevates one character over all the others, what does his preference imply about the overall message of the novel?
Essay Topic 2
In Part 1, Chapter 2, John tells a folktale about a wife, known as a she-wolf, who betrays her husband for a poet who pretends to be an emperor. How does this folktale relate to John's story? How does the folktale parallel John's marriage? Does Florence have any she-wolf qualities? How might Edward be like the poet in the folktale?
Essay Topic 3
Explain the role of money in The Good Soldier. How does money affect the characters' relationships in The Good Soldier? If money is truly power, which of the novel's characters are powerful? How do the novel's characters utilize the power of money?
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