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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 Richard identify as the one opportunity he has to disengage from the group?

2. What does Richard think Henry and the group should have done after the murder of the farmer?

3. What is Richard's first assignment of the second semester from Prof. Morrow?

4. When Richard first asks to join Prof. Morrow's class, what does he learn?

5. Where is Julian Morrow's office?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Richard goes to meet with Julian to talk to him about misgivings he is having about his academics, who does he find talking with Julian? What are the two saying?

2. 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?

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

4. When Henry comes to Richard to ask questions about dosages and chemicals, what does he tell Richard about his plan to solve the group's problem with Bunny? How does Richard respond?

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

7. Where do Henry and Bunny go for winter break? Why does Henry come home early? Where is Bunny?

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. What does Richard learn his friends have done? How does he react?

10. Why does Henry take Bunny to Italy? Does his plan work? How does Bunny behave in Italy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Richard want to become part of Prof. Morrow's class? Why does he want to become friends with the quirky and secretive group of Prof. Morrow's students? What compels him to withstand their rude treatment of him?

Essay Topic 2

What are the events that lead to Julian Morrow's departure from Hampden? How does his departure affect the group? Do their opinions of and feelings for Julian change?

Essay Topic 3

Bunny has taken advantage of his friends, taken money, food, and possessions from them, and speak terribly of them. Yet the members of the group continue to include Bunny, allow him to take money from them, and to control their behavior. Why? How does this situation become increasingly intolerable to the group members and change their lives?

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