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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 word has Aldred NOT used to Helen yet?

2. Who does Peter see at a fancy place, dancing and having a good time?

3. How has Aldred's attitude toward war change?

4. Who does Aldred dine with the evening of his return to England?

5. What happens to Peter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Peter's long-term prognosis by the doctor?

2. What presents do Aldred and Aurora give each other and why?

3. Where does Aldred get the coat he and Helen are lying on in the grove?

4. Why is Aurora planning on leaving England so soon after Aldred returns?

5. How does Peter become ill?

6. What are the crisis' that Aldred must deal with upon his return from Nagasaki?

7. Why does Peter attempt suicide?

8. What does Bertram suggest Aldred do to get the Driscoll parents to approve Helen's move to England?

9. Why does Aldred want to talk to Barry and Melba?

10. Why doesn't Rita want to help Peter with the dying child?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

How are Helen and Benedict so happy when they deal with Benedict's disease every day? What makes them capable of having so much joy on a daily basis?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the women and the role they play in Aldred's life. Choose at least three women in the book and discuss the influence they have over Aldred and the actions he takes because of each woman.

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