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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 Amory like to do in his spare time?

2. How many letters are included in the Interlude?

3. What happens when Amory first sees Clara when he visits her?

4. What does Amory do when he goes to the war front for the first time?

5. What is Amory's mother's name?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Amory decide he wants to be when he gets older in his last year of high school?

2. What do Amory and his friends choose to do at the end of Amory's junior year of college?

3. What does Monsignor Darcy say in his letter to Amory during the Interlude?

4. What happens when Isabelle and Amory have their first fight?

5. How is Amory raised by his mother?

6. What does Amory do at Christmas after his fight with Isabelle?

7. Where does Amory decide to go to college, and why?

8. What is the title of the poem that Monsignor Darcy writes to Amory during the Interlude?

9. What does Burne challenge the college newspaper about in Amory's junior year of college?

10. What does Amory do in New York after Kerry joins the war?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Amory's relationship with Monsignor Darcy change over the course of the plot? What causes these changes, and what significance does this have to the outcome of the book?

Essay Topic 2

Which character do you relate with the most in this book? Why is this? How does this character change throughout the book?

Essay Topic 3

What role does symbolism play in the story and where does it appear? How is the plot altered by the presence of these symbols?

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