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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 does the author say Jones's brain is like?

2. What kind of snake does the African woman have curled around her top?

3. What is Jones's job?

4. What kind of bed does Jim's mother think he is lying in?

5. What are people beginning to call Lennox because of his sight?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the man's suicide attempt unsuccessful?

2. Why does the policeman arrest the man?

3. Why is Lennox upset with his children?

4. How do Lennox and Fred's views on marriage differ?

5. Why is Lennox so upset at the beginning of this story?

6. Why do Lennox's workmates tease him?

7. What efforts do Bert and Colin make to get more money?

8. How are Bert and Colin different to each other?

9. What does the narrator think has lead to Jim's disgrace?

10. How does the narrator describe Jim's mother?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does football mean to Lennox? In what way does he use football to hide his real problems?

Essay Topic 2

Examine the following phrase; a ghost of your former self; What does the phrase mean and to which stories does the phrase refer to? How does becong this person affect others more that it does the person?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the British class system.

1. What points does Sillitoe make about the British class system?

2. Why is it so difficult for two classes to get on together?

3. How have peoples' attitudes towards class changed in the different time periods portrayed in the book?

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