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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 do Henrietta and Leopold both resent?
2. How many years in the past is Part 2 set in?
3. What does Leopold realize after reading the letter from Henrietta's grandmother?
4. Where does Henrietta have a quick nap in Part 1, Chapter 1?
5. How does Leopold feel while Henrietta is admonishing him in Part 1, Chapter 2?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Leopold do that causes both he and Henrietta to become nervous at the end of Part 1 Chapter 2?
2. What does Henrietta think about after leaving Madame Fisher's room in Part 1, Chapter 5?
3. What does the letter that Leopold finds in Part 1, Chapter 3 from Leopold's aunt say?
4. What does Miss Fisher tell Henrietta of the other house guest during the taxi ride?
5. What arrives at the Fisher household in Part 1, Chapter 5?
6. Why did Karen go to Ireland?
7. What does Henrietta learn of Leopold's father in Part 1, Chapter 4?
8. What did Ray's letter to Karen in Part 2, Chapter 2 ask for and how did Karen respond to the letter?
9. What does Henrietta do for Leopold after he finds a deck of cards?
10. Who was Karen engaged to and how did she feel about this engagement?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the theme of motherhood in the novel "The House in Paris." Who are the principal maternal characters in the novel? What are prominent mother-child relationships in the novel? How do these relationships affect the plot and the lives of the characters?
Essay Topic 2
Analyze and interpret the secondary characters of the novel (Max, Madame Fisher, Mrs Michaelis, Ray). What are their defining character traits? What are their roles in the story?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Bowen's use of time as a plot device. Why does she go from past to present and how does this effect the narrative? What does the reader learn by going back in time in Part 2?
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