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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 park does the author cut across after leaving the Colonel?

2. What name does the Colonel call Strickland?

3. What city does Crabbe travel to in Chapter 11?

4. How does the author describe Charles Strickland's laugh in Chapter 6?

5. What game does Amy say Charles is great at?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mrs. Strickland begin to make something of her life?

2. How did Crabbe meet Mrs. Strickland?

3. Why does Strickland say he is looking forward to painting the plumber?

4. Describe Strickland's job as a tour guide?

5. What does the author think of Rev. Robert Strickland's biography of his father?

6. How is Mrs. Strickland coping with her husband's disappearance?

7. How does Crabbe describe Mrs. Strickland?

8. Why does Strickland think he can become a successful painter?

9. Why does Mrs. Strickland think Charles will return to her?

10. How do Crabbe and Dirk find Strickland?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare Crabbe's character to the person he was at the beginning of the book to the he is at the end.

1. What did Crabbe hope to achieve at the beginning of the book?

2. What events changes Crabbe's ideas about life?

3. How has Crabbe's character changed by the end of the book?

Essay Topic 2

What suggestions are there earlier in the book that Charles Strickland would become the artist he eventually became? What does it express about the nature of art and the artist that someone as seemingly dull as Strickland can become a renowned artist?

Essay Topic 3

In what way does Crabbe present Crabbe as a weak man? Would his character be presented as weak in contemporary literature?

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