The Shipping News Test | Final Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 141 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Shipping News Test | Final Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 141 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 happened to the old lighthouse?

2. Who is Alvin's niece?

3. What disturbing sensation does Quoyle have when in the green house?

4. What indirectly caused Jack's accident?

5. What is the outcome of the conflict over the piece on oil tankers?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Quoyle's response to Billy Pretty's skepticism about him?

2. Comment on the news stories the men discuss on that cold November morning.

3. What are the implied advantages of the green house?

4. For Quoyle, what are the outcomes of his misadventure with the 'speedboat'?

5. In what way has Quoyle reached a turning point in his life?

6. What insight into Wavey and her friends, the Buggit family, is provided in this chapter?

7. In what shape is the local Newfoundland economy?

8. To what extent is Quoyle drawn to the green house on the point?

9. In what sense is the new boat symbolic?

10. In what ways are descriptions of interior environment, specifically the Heavy weather bar and the Burke house, connected to the characters of Quoyle and Tert Card in Chapter 34?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In THE SHIPPING NEWS there is a range of events that can be classified as bizarre.

Discuss the use of the bizarre and unusual in THE SHIPPING NEWS. Is there any pattern in this? Is it linked to theme and/or character?

Focus on three bizarre incidents or characters and show how these are important for the novel as a whole. What is revealed or emphasized about choices, fortune and behavior?

Essay Topic 2

THE SHIPPING NEWS is characterized by a distinctive style.

1) What do you see as the major elements of Annie Proulx's style?

2) What is the impact of that style?

3) Focus on three salient examples and comment on their effectiveness as well as their relationship to the novel as a whole.

Make this a personal response.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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