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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 island does Crabbe travel to fifteen years later?

2. What city does Strickland travel to after he shows Crabbe his paintings?

3. What was the name of the old sailor Strickland and Nichols stayed with?

4. What does Ata's son become?

5. Who suggests that Crabbe visits Captain Brunot?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Crabbe think about Strickland's paintings?

2. Why does Crabbe have a begrudging respect for Strickland?

3. Why does Dirk want Crabbe to write Blanche a letter?

4. How did Nichols and Strickland become friends?

5. What observation does Crabbe make about Strickland's relationship with Blanche?

6. What does Crabbe think about Blanche in this section?

7. What does Tiare think of men beating girls?

8. How does Dirk try to win Blanche back?

9. What are Dirk's feelings about beauty?

10. How does Crabbe wish he could his story about Strickland more compelling?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the main themes of the story. In what way are these themes relevant to the period? How does the author use character and setting to express these themes?

Essay Topic 2

Why does Blanche fear Strickland? What does it say about Blanche's past that she does feel such fear for him? Do the students think she fears Strickland or what he brings out in herself?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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