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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. Where is Brian Talbot going in six days?

2. How does Helen describe Dench?

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

4. Who does Peter run into outside of the theater?

5. What two events make Peter realize how lonely he is?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Sidney think Helen and Aldred will never see each other again?

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

4. What makes Peter compare Rita with Audrey?

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

6. How does Rita help Peter while he is in the hospital?

7. Why does Aldred believe he has survived all of his past obstacles?

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

9. How does Peter become ill?

10. Why does Aldred turn down Calder's offer to work as a spy?

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

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.

Essay Topic 3

Aldred, Peter and Helen each deal with loneliness. How does it affect them differently? What do they have in common when being affected by loneliness? What does loneliness prompt each character to do?

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