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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 Bunny steal from the house refrigerator in Richard's dorm?
2. How does Camilla react in the days following the murder in the field?
3. What is Richard majoring in his freshman year of college?
4. What is Richard's first assignment of the second semester from Prof. Morrow?
5. What does Richard remember as being the best times of his first term at Hampden?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Richard learn his friends have done? How does he react?
2. What happens to Henry in Italy? How does Bunny react to his friend's problem?
3. What does Richard learn about Henry during his lunch with Bunny? What happens at the end of the lunch? What does Richard learn about Bunny on the way home with Henry?
4. What surprises Richard when he enters the Greek class on the Monday after learning of Henry's plans to leave the country with Francis, Camilla and Charles? What surprises him even further when he asks Henry about what has been going on?
5. Why is Hampden College closed in January and February? Where do students go during this time? In what position does this situation put Richard?
6. How does Bunny die? What part do the group members have in his death?
7. Charles and Camilla tell Richard about Henry's education. What does Richard learn about Henry in this conversation? Why is he surprised?
8. In Chapter 4, Henry asks Richard a serious question before telling him about the murder of the farmer. What does he ask, what does he mean by this question, and what has Richard been covering up?
9. How does Richard finally meet and speak to students in Professor Morrow's Greek class? How do the students respond to him?
10. Under what conditions does Prof. Morrow allow Richard to join his Greek class? How does Richard initially react? What does he decide to do?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
There are only a few women in this story, and only one in the center of the action. Who is Camilla? Is she integral to the story? What role does she play in the plot of the novel?
Essay Topic 2
In the end, there is only one character who seems to have come out of the experience at Hampden College intact. Who is that character? What does he do after Henry's death that is so much more than any of the other characters?
Essay Topic 3
"It was the most important night of my life. It enabled me to do what I've always wanted to do, to live without thinking." Which character says this, and why? What does he mean?
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