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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 Paula want to buy for Willy?

2. What sea does Willy say he went on vacation to?

3. What does Barbara think has gone wrong with Pierce?

4. Who does Ducane say Mary should marry?

5. What has Ducane received permission to search?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Theo puzzle Mary?

2. What does Judy say her and Radeechy did in the vaults?

3. What do Kate and Octavia talk about later that night?

4. What does Willy think about Mary?

5. What do Kate and Octavian talk about before they go to bed?

6. What is Mary thinking about as she walks along the beach?

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

8. Why is Ducane envious of Willy?

9. What did McGrath use to do for Radeechy?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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

Away from the main character examine the way the author uses the other characters in the book. When does he introduce and take them away from the story? What effect does it have on the story?

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