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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. Why does Petal telephone Quoyle from Montgomery?
2. What damage did The Polar Grinder sustain in the terrible storm?
3. What are the Tea Buns?
4. What evidence confirms to Agnis that she had seen a man close by?
5. Why does Sunshine exclaim that it is 'a ladder house'?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is significant about the different ways in which Quoyle and his aunt respond to the finding of Bayonet Melville's head?
2. How does the author use the symbolism of the iceberg that Quoyle and Wavey see during their walk?
3. What do we learn about the aunt in Chapter 6?
4. Why do we feel at this point that there is cause to be optimistic about Quoyle's growing friendship with Wavey?
5. How does Annie Proulx utilize symbolism in the account of Billy's and Quoyle's journey back from Gaze Island?
6. How did the Quoyle house come to be moved to the point where it now stands?
7. What is the significance of Agnis' relationship with Irene Warren?
8. How does Quoyle respond to the news about the Quoyles' past?
9. What insight into Jack Buggit does the harbormaster convey to Quoyle?
10. What are Quoyle's expectations of marriage and how is the reality different for him?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
THE SHIPPING NEWS is a novel that successfully presents a web of sub-plots. Of the sub-plots in the novel, identify and discuss two.
1) What functions do these sub-plots perform in the novel? Do they support the main narrative stream, complement it or provide contrast?
2) Do you consider that sub-plots enrich our enjoyment of narrative texts?
Essay Topic 2
Identify two themes in THE SHIPPING NEWS. Discuss the ways in which the novelist uses character and circumstance to explore these themes. You should focus on Quoyle, Agnis and Jack Buggit.
Essay Topic 3
THE SHIPPING NEWS shows us contrasting practices in the rearing of children. Explain and discuss the way in which Quoyle was raised and contrast this with the way he raises his own children. You could also refer to the parenting skills of Wavey and Beety. What do these differences show us about (a) changes in society and (b) changes in individuals?
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