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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 does the narrator see walk to the man's house?

2. What color does the narrator say his family turns when they are fed-up?

3. What does Fred grin like at the end of the book?

4. What is Jim's fiance's name?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does the narrator say about his families' black looks?

4. Why do Lennox's workmates tease him?

5. Why does the narrator come back to the man's house?

6. Why does the narrator think his father would never kill himself?

7. Why does the man want to kill himself?

8. How does Jim's mother react to him telling her he is getting married?

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

10. What do Bert and Colin do on the way home?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the stories and examine what comment it makes about British society? How has British society changed since the story was written? How much was literature and art an important part of this change?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the author's writing style. How would you describe the author's prose style? What kind of vocabulary does he use? What meaning does the author's style give to the book?

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