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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 kind of woman does Jessica tell Willy she is?

2. Who did Ducane spend the previous evening with?

3. What does Theo say him and Willy always talk about?

4. Whose house does Jessica arrive at at the beginning of chapter 23?

5. What is Judy holding?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Octavian think is strange about Radeechy's death?

2. How does Willy react to Barbara's advances?

3. Why does John Ducane want to break up with Jessica?

4. What do Kate and Ducane talk about as they walk towards Willy's cottage?

5. How does Willy react when Mary asks him to marry her?

6. Why does Theo puzzle Mary?

7. How does Jessica enter Ducane's bedroom?

8. Why does Jessica say she is searching Ducane's room?

9. Why does Pierce say he has been hiding the cat?

10. Why does Willy's use of German irritate Mary?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose two of the following people and outline their influence on Ducane during the story:

1. Willy.

2. Jessica.

3. Kate.

4. Biranne.

Essay Topic 2

Choose one of the characters alive at the end of the book. Compare his or her character to who he or she was at the beginning of the book to who he or she is at the end.

1) What did your character hope to achieve at the beginning of the book?

2) What events changed your character ideas about life?

3) How has your character changed by the end of the novel?

Essay Topic 3

The author wrote The Nice and the Good in the third person. Why do you think the author chose to write the story in the third person? How do you think the meaning of the story would change if the author wrote it in the first person?

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