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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. Who greets Aldred when he returns to England?

2. What fills the bookshelves in the study at Aldred's parent's house?

3. Who does Aurora meet in Kenya?

4. Who offers to take Peter on a ship to Australia?

5. Where is Brian Talbot going in six days?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why do the Fry women like Helen so much?

8. How does Peter become ill?

9. What makes Peter compare Rita with Audrey?

10. How can the farewell kiss on the ship between Peter and Audrey be described?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 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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