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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. When does the Duke find out about a friend's death?

2. What does Mr. Hendley and the reader learn about the Duke during his bike ride?

3. When does the Duke sense the phantom boy?

4. In a final story by the housemaid what is the Duke doing in the tree?

5. What does the Duke need from Reverend Mellor?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the Duke's visit to Reverend Mellor significant?

2. Why does just the presence of others reduce the loneliness the Duke feels?

3. What is significant about the Duke traveling between January 6-11th?

4. What happens when the Duke visits Holbeck village?

5. What is the recurring dream discussed in the January 28th journal entry?

6. Why does the Duke add Fowler's bust to his shrine?

7. What is included in the Duke's shrine?

8. What does the fellowship created on the ice teach the Duke?

9. Why doesn't the Duke find out about Snow's death until after the funeral?

10. Why does the Duke think his life has been wasted?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

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

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.

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