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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. Where does Nichols say he and Strickland used to spend the night?

2. What is the piano covered with?

3. What does Crabbe say Dirk does for the first time in a week?

4. Who does Crabbe lie awake thinking about at the beginning of Chapter 30?

5. What does Crabbe say Strickland walks up and down the room like?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ata do after Strickland dies?

2. What does Strickland say about his relationship with Blanche?

3. What are Dirk's feelings about beauty?

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

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

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

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

8. What does Tiare think of men beating girls?

9. How has the poison damaged Blanche?

10. How did Nichols and Strickland become friends?

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

Why does Crabbe feel so guilty? What could he have done to prevent what happened? In what way do Crabbe's actions show the true instincts of a writer?

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