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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 Crabbe say Dirk nursed Strickland like?

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

3. Who does Crabbe visit in London?

4. What did Stroeve's father want him to become?

5. What does Strickland suggest he and Crab do together?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Nichols and Strickland become friends?

2. How does Tiare like to help people?

3. Why does Crabbe feel guilty in this section?

4. Why does Dirk refuse to go back to Holland?

5. What does Ata do after Strickland dies?

6. How does Mrs. Strickland react to news about her husband?

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

8. Why does Brunot think he and Strickland are alike?

9. How does Strickland's portrait of Blanche affect Dirk?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is Strickland's relationship with his first wife Amy? What reasons did they marry each other in the first place? Are there suggestions that Strickland had ulterior motives for marrying Amy?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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?

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