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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 does Ernest think he should have died?

2. What kind of tree is at the end of the lane?

3. What has happened to the girl's father?

4. What color jackets do Hucknall school wear?

5. What does Smith say he was born into?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the governor make Smith's life a misery for the rest of the time he is at Borstal?

2. Describe the meeting between Harry and Kathy ten years later.

3. How does Kathy die?

4. What point does Smith make about honesty?

5. What does Mr. Raynor see happening in the Draper's shop at the beginning of the story?

6. What is Smith's attitutude when the policeman confronts him about the robbery?

7. Why does Smith say he wrote this story?

8. What do the policemen tell Ernest at the end of the story?

9. What is the girls' family life like?

10. How is Smith caught with the money he steals from the butchers?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why was suicide seen as a criminal offense in England? What lead to suicide becoming legalized?

Essay Topic 2

How was paediphilia viewed in fifties Britain? How would the authorities deal with someone like Jim in today's Britain?

Essay Topic 3

What is an anti-hero? In what way can Smith be called an anti-hero? Why does the use of an anti-hero work so well in Loneliness of a long Distance Rinner?

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