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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 is wrong with Vanessa Pennington's husband?

2. Whose identity does the condemned man, in "The Lost Sanjak," assume?

3. Who asks Clovis if he was a matchmaker?

4. In England, what kind of dog does Olga believe to be "chic"?

5. What present does Reginald not want at all for Christmas?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Mrs. Packletide shot at the tiger?

2. What happens as a result of the feud in Toad-Water?

3. Why does Clovis believe that his mother needs to get married?

4. What does Reginald state as the estimable qualities of Jews?

5. Why is Mrs. Mullet unhappy that Mr Penricarde had purchased the Brogue?

6. According to "Reginald on Christmas Presents," why are aunts a "difficult class to deal with"?

7. What begins the feud in "The Blood-Feud of Toad-Water"?

8. According to the Baroness, in "Esme," what does poverty do?

9. Why is Mrs. Olston so protective of the buzzards and their eggs?

10. What does the outing to kill a tiger actually cost Mrs. Packletide?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What do you believe was the purpose of presenting Saki's works as a collection? Did the stories work off of each other? Did the collection allow you to understand the texts better? In what ways do you believe messages were lost given the collection is presented as a whole?

Essay Topic 2

Many of Saki's writings included some type of humor. Humor seemed to be a way for Saki to engage the reader in an otherwise mundane storyline. Find three examples of humor in a text that depended upon humor. Explain why the humor was necessary, what type of humor was used and what the result of the humor had on the text itself.

Essay Topic 3

Write a full analysis on one of the texts. Imagine that you are writing the analysis for a newspaper or magazine article. Focus analysis on character, theme, literary devices, hidden meaning, etc.

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