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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 the Duke spend his last few months of life trying to do?

2. How much land do the tunnels cover?

3. What does Fanny Adelaide do for a living?

4. Why is Dr. Cox summoned?

5. How many tunnels were built?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of reading Mr. Bird's point of view within the Duke's journal?

2. What comparisons can be made between the Duke and the condition of the leafless trees?

3. Why is the Duke interested in one particular tree on his estate?

4. Based on the scene in the laundry room, how does Mrs. Pladger feel about the Duke?

5. What thoughts does the memory of a dead sparrow bring to the Duke?

6. Why does it seem that Mr. Bird does not mind the Duke's eccentricities?

7. How is the Duke's imagination revealed with the soap bubbles in the laundry room sink?

8. Why do the townspeople spread rumors about the Duke?

9. What does the Duke think about trying the beef essence?

10. What does the Duke say about his grooming regime?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze the Duke's need to remember his past. Be sure to discuss why the Duke does not remember some things in his past, how he goes about remembering his past, and the effect of the knowledge of his past on the Duke's mental and physical health.

Essay Topic 2

The underground tunnel system is one of the many eccentric actions of the Duke. Discuss the building of these tunnels and analyze the role they serve in this story. For example, are they a representation of anything, and do they tell the reader anything about the Duke?

Essay Topic 3

A reader can look at this story in terms of milestones. Explore the various milestones during the last days of the Duke. Additionally, these milesstones each had a profound effect on the Duke. Analyze how these milestones served to either provide the Duke with information, change his thinking or mental state, or produce some other effect on the Duke.

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