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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 does Camilla react in the days following the murder in the field?

2. What is bothering both Richard and Prof. Morrow the days before the semester begins?

3. Where does Richard find a job at school?

4. What information does Bunny possess after the trip to Rome that allows him to torment and threaten his friends?

5. Who among Richard's college friends are orphans?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Henry in Italy? How does Bunny react to his friend's problem?

2. Charles and Camilla tell Richard about Henry's education. What does Richard learn about Henry in this conversation? Why is he surprised?

3. Under what conditions does Prof. Morrow allow Richard to join his Greek class? How does Richard initially react? What does he decide to do?

4. How does Richard finally meet and speak to students in Professor Morrow's Greek class? How do the students respond to him?

5. After the bacchanal, the group members are worried about Bunny. Why?

6. How does Bunny die? What part do the group members have in his death?

7. Where did Richard grow up and spend his high school years? What do we know about his family? How does he feel about his family? His hometown?

8. Richard engages in risky behavior for winter living, and his life begins to deteriorate. Why does this happen to Richard? Is he aware of the dangerous living situation he is in? Why does Richard refuse to ask for help?

9. What does Bunny tell Henry about the night of the bacchanal? What does Henry realize Bunny has done during his illness to obtain the information he has? Why is this important?

10. How and why does Richard end up at Hampden College? How does he get to the college from his home?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Richard tells us that Julian has said "what is unthinkable is undoable." Discuss this comment as it applies to the story of this 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

How do Richard and Bunny serve as foils for each other? What qualities does each bring out in the other that are important to the plot of the novel?

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