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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 the doctor think Peter is lucky?

2. Who does Aurora meet in Kenya?

3. Who does Peter miss above all others?

4. What does Peter do when he sees the state of the tailor's child?

5. What does Helen believe New Zealand represents?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What do the Fry women think about Helen's love of Aldred?

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

5. Why does Aldred feel the need to visit George Laister?

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

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

8. Why is Peter so aware of his loneliness in Chapter 12?

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

10. What makes Peter compare Rita with Audrey?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What role does Bertram play in the lives of Helen, Benedict and Aldred? What does he provide to each character?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Helen's transformation from a girl to a woman throughout the book. Describe her on the day Aldred first sees her. Describe her on the day he wakes her from sleeping on the front porch. What changes? Why does she change? Use examples.

Essay Topic 3

What does Professor Gardiner contribute to the overall novel? How does his small role at the beginning of the book affect the novel in general and Aldred in particular?

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