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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 do with Fowler's bust now that his father is dead?
2. How does Conner react to the story of the phantom boy?
3. Why does the Duke want to travel alone?
4. What do the locals ask the Duke for on December 19th?
5. In his reoccurring dream, what is the Duke's father doing?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does the Duke allow people to skate on the ice but protests to going on the ice with them?
2. What is the setting like in Camera Obscura?
3. What is significant about the interactions between the Duke and Mr. Hendley?
4. How does the process of trepanning work?
5. What does the Duke learn while traveling with others in his room that is in sharp contrast to the fellowship felt while ice skating a few weeks before?
6. What happens when the Duke visits Holbeck village?
7. Why does the Duke's staff think he needs an escort while traveling?
8. Why does just the presence of others reduce the loneliness the Duke feels?
9. What does the fellowship created on the ice teach the Duke?
10. What does Conner say about the Duke's phantom boy?
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
It is interesting that the Duke is repulsed by Mr. Snow's appearance. However, the two are very similar. Compare and contrast the Duke and Mr. Snow. Discuss whether the Duke's feelings toward Mr. Snow are warranted.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the significance of the Duke's discussion of going bald? This discussion is directly related to the theme of death. Explore how this discussion fits into this theme and offer suggestions for why the author chose this as one way to represent the theme of death.
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