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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. Why does Aldred go to Tokyo the next day after returning from Hong Kong?

2. What does Aldred believe literature does for Helen and Benedict?

3. Who does Audrey wish shows up to the Admiral's party?

4. Where does Benedict want to go with Leith?

5. Where is the plane that crashes flying in from?

Short Essay Questions

1. What role does Gardiner play in Chapter Two?

2. What do Benedict and Helen fear will happen while Aldred is away on his two month journey away from Kure?

3. How does Aldred get the job of studying China and Japan?

4. Why does Aldred ask his father for money when he returns from his Easter trip to Florence?

5. Why does Benedict admire Helen for ditching him in Marseilles?

6. What does Aldred interrupt when he goes for a walk, after writing letters on his first night at the Driscoll's?

7. Why does Aldred value the letters Peter has waiting for him iin Hong Kong so much?

8. Why don't the Driscoll siblings ask Aldred about his war experiences?

9. Why does Aldred want to walk alone, without Peter?

10. Why is Professor Gardiner in prison during the war?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why is it difficult for Aldred to transition between war and the death that comes from violence to peacetime and life without wartime death?

Essay Topic 2

How does culture affect Peter Exley throughout the novel? Use at least three examples of how it affects his life, his relationships and his actions.

Essay Topic 3

How is death used throughout the book? What does it prompt? What does it cause? Who does it affect? Use examples from the novel to discuss how death affects the plot and the characters.

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