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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. How does Amory's mother treat him while he is growing up?

2. Who does the person writing Amory in the Interlude say he will be fighting against?

3. When does Amory visit Monsignor Darcy when he is in danger of failing some college courses?

4. Where does Amory sleep when he visits the seaside with his friends?

5. Why is Amory not able to kiss the girl he sees while visiting Minneapolis while in college?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens to Burne in Amory's junior year of college?

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

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

6. Who greets Amory after his scary experience in New York, and what do they do?

7. What does Isabelle do after Dick's death?

8. Who dies during the Interlude?

9. How does meeting Tom affect Amory's life?

10. How does Princeton feel about the changes in Burne in Amory's junior year of college?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Power and Greed were two common themes in this book. Where do they appear, and how do they differ in their manifestations?

Essay Topic 2

Beatrice was a minor character whose presence made a big difference in the plot. How does she accomplish this? What are some ways that her presence, however brief, alters the outcome of the plot? What would have happened differently if she had not been in the book at all?

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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