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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. Grantly compares the newspaper that speaks badly of the warden to what in Russia?

2. What is the first name of the man who, centuries before the story opens, started a home for the old and destitute men of the city?

3. What is Harding's first name?

4. What is Mary's relation to Bold?

5. The narrator guesses Bold is how old?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Harding tell Eleanor to go for a walk after he gets done visiting at the bishop's palace?

2. What do Grantly and the bishop tell Harding that Sir Abraham has said about their legal case?

3. How does Harding react when he reads an article about himself in the newspaper?

4. How does the bishop react when Harding tells him that Bold, who might marry his daughter, is looking to take legal action against him?

5. How does a newspaper article describe Harding?

6. What happens after Eleanor reproaches Bold for being at odds with her father?

7. What happens when Bold goes to visit Harding, hoping to demand a detailed statement of the hospital's accounts?

8. How do the inmates at the hospital react when they hear about reforms in other churches?

9. Why does the narrator say he has made up the town of Barchester?

10. How does Bunce react when he finds out that most of the beadsmen have already signed the petition saying that they deserve a much bigger share of the hospital's money?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explore the relationship between Harding and the bishop. Why do you think they are so close? How are they alike? How they different? How do they interact with each other? What role does the bishop play for Harding?

Essay Topic 2

Explore the character of Anticant. Why is it important that Anticant cannot see anything other than "good" and "evil" within a person's motives? How does this relate to the novel as a whole? Who else in the novel seems to have trouble seeing any gray area when it comes to good and evil?

Essay Topic 3

Explore Harding's willingness to fight to give up his position as warden. Why does Harding suddenly decide to fight? How has he acted prior to this? What examples can you think of for times he did not fight for what he wanted? Why do you think he chooses this time to not let Grantly boss him around? Is it important that Grantly and Susan think he is being foolish? Why or why not?

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