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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. How many of the Brodie set still attend Blaine in their final year?

2. What did Eunice Gardiner end up being?

3. What curriculum did all of the set take but one girl?

4. What paintings are there who are not of girls in the set?

5. When does Mr. Lowther begin to get housekeeping service?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to the set in the school year 1932 – 1933?

2. Of what does Sandy feel deprived and who is influenced by this?

3. What does Sandy see as the difference between Mr. Lloyd’s paintings of his family and of the students?

4. How does Sandy end up helping Miss Mackay get rid of Miss Brodie?

5. What does Sandy think about Miss Brodie’s obsession with Mr. Lloyd?

6. About what does Miss Brodie confide to the girls when they are around fourteen years old?

7. What does Sandy say to Mr. Lloyd about his paintings and what is his response?

8. What do Sandy Stranger and Jenny Gray say about sex in their first year of senior school?

9. What ends Miss Brodie’s involvement with Mr. Lowther?

10. How does Miss Brodie’s aspirations for Sandy and Rose turn out?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the protagonists of the story and why you believe they are such? Identify the antagonists of the story and why you believe they are such? Which three secondary characters have the greatest impact on the plot? Which, if any, characters are not essential to the story? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

Miss Brodie becomes the focus of the two male faculty members, Mr. Lloyd and Mr. Lowther. Monica Douglas catches Miss Brodie kissing the married art teacher, Mr. Lloyd, and Miss Brodie and Mr. Lowther are absent from school for two weeks during which time they become lovers. Miss Brodie takes more interest in the music classes, and when she needs art books from Mr. Lloyd's room, she sends Rose for them.

Discuss what is inappropriate about two teachers kissing in school. Do you think Miss Brodie is being immoral by starting an affair with another teacher and then attending his class so much? Why or why not? Use examples from your own life and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Some members of the faculty think Miss Brodie's style would fit a more progressive school, but Miss Brodie, who is in her "prime," is intent on remaining at Blaine, where she works as "a leaven in the lump."

What do you think Miss Brodie means by being a “leaven in the lump”? Do you think she is too progressive for Blaine academy? Why or why not? What do you think of a teacher who is determined to stay at a school which clearly does not want her? Use examples from your own life and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie to support your answer.

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