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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. How does Mrs. Strickland offer to help her husband?

2. How does Strickland address Dirk?

3. What does Stroeve say his wife can't live on?

4. What artist does Dirk say never sold a painting?

5. What is the name of the crime novelist Strickland enjoys reading?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mrs. Strickalnd respond to the news that her husband wants to take up painting?

2. Why does Dirk say he can't get into his apartment?

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

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

5. How does Dirk persuade Blanche to let Strickland stay?

6. How does Crabbe describe Strickland in Chapter 6?

7. How do Crabbe and Dirk find Strickland?

8. How does Mrs. Strickland express her disgust for her husband by the way she brings up her daughter?

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

10. What does the author about George Crabbe's poetry?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why is Dirk known only as a hack? What does this view and the view that Dirk is nothing but a buffoon say about Crabbe's character? Does Strickland's success suggest that everyone possesses genius as long as they can find their true selves?

Essay Topic 2

Is the attraction between Strickland and Blanche is mutual? How does the author foreshadow that Blanche will fall for Strickland?

Essay Topic 3

How does the Tahiti setting affect Strickland and why does it affect him in this way? In what way does Tahiti show how unhappy Strickland was in Europe?

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