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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. To which of the following does Cutter’s landlady compare Gideon?
2. To what school is Gideon sent in his childhood?
3. What other inspector does Cutter encounter at his preferred dinner establishment?
4. For which newspaper does Octavia work?
5. What profession does Angela have?
Short Essay Questions
1. What observation about teeth does Cutter make in reference to the slaughter of the St. Johns?
2. What reasons does Cutter give for thinking the murder of Esther Tull’s sister more than a botched burglary?
3. What explanation does Gideon give for not being able to find his uncle’s dwellings?
4. How does George unsettle the police sergeant with whom he converses as he works to help Octavia find information?
5. What comment does Angela’s landlady make about men doing harm (180)?
6. When Carew answers the door for Cutter and Gideon at Strythe’s London house, to what does Cutter mockingly ascribe his slowness in doing so?
7. What remarks does Cutter’s landlady make regarding Gideon’s appearance as a sergeant?
8. What threat does Octavia’s editor levy at her when she confronts him in his club?
9. What reason does the inspector who accompanies Cutter and Gideon to Esther Tull’s lodgings ask to shut the open window?
10. What reasons does Gideon give for thinking the murder of Esther Tull’s sister more than a botched burglary?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Similarly, major sectional divisions of a novel, when titled, often speak to the tone of the sections they title. Do the section-titles in the novel serve that function for The House on Vesper Sands? How or how not?
Essay Topic 2
What is the point of broadest contrast between the city where you live—as determined by your postal address—and the primary setting of the novel? How does that point contrast, based on experience and the novel?
Essay Topic 3
Who is the second most important character of the novel? How does the novel support such an assertion?
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