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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. What ailment does Miss Gilpet state is fictitious?

3. When, according to Reginald in "Reginald on the Academy", does one go to Heaven prematurely?

4. Where does Adela Pingsford say the ox is?

5. Who lives at Toad-Water?

Short Essay Questions

1. While looking for buried treasure, what does Vasco find?

2. Why does Clovis believe that oysters are "more beautiful than any religion"?

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

4. What does Reinald say one comes to know at a host's home?

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

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

7. Why does Clovis state that Hugo Peterby is at Mrs. Olston's home?

8. In "The Innocence of Reginald," what two things does Reginald believe fail to go together?

9. What does Clovis do to insure that Jane has left before Dora shows up at his home?

10. What does Esme do to the gypsy child?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Many of Saki's characters are not fully developed characters. They are actually both flat and static characters. Discuss why you believe Saki used flat and static characters in his texts. Create a hypothesis, at least three supporting ideas, and fully develop your argument in favor of your hypothesis.

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

The section titled "The Square Egg" showed a very different side of Saki. Why do you think that the writings from this section were so different from the other sections? How did the happenings in Saki's life at this point change his writing? What seemed to be his focus?

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