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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 Karl join?
2. What is rumored about Karl?
3. About what is Rowley concerned?
4. What does Karl tell Mary and she says she does not feel the same way?
5. Who comes to ask about the gunshot?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Mary feel about what Karl tells her about his life?
2. How does the situation between Mary and Karl start to deteriorate?
3. What does Rowley advise Mary to do before he leaves early that morning?
4. What does Nina relate to Mary about what Nina learns from Agata?
5. What does Mary do that causes Karl to become even more angry and what is Karl's reply?
6. Who wakes Mary and what does Mary tell the person?
7. What are Mary's thoughts as she is getting read to go to the luncheon?
8. What does Mary think about Rowley?
9. Where does Mary go and why is she relieved when she arrives there?
10. Describe the scene of Mary and Rowley getting rid of Karl's body.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Mary and Rowley take Karl's body and dump it in some weeds, though they really have done nothing criminally wrong. Discuss the following:
1. Do you think Mary and Rowley do the best thing considering the circumstances? What could they have done differently? Is it conceivable that Mary is correct in fearing being arrested?
2. Do you think Mary is directly responsible for Karl's death? Why or why not?
3. Do you think Mary is morally responsible for Karl's death? Why or why not?
4. What do you think Mary could have done to prevent Karl from killing himself?
5. What would you have done in Mary's place when Karl first expresses his desire to see Mary again?
Essay Topic 2
There are a number of interesting questions raised by this book--questions that Maugham may have wanted the readers to consider and think through carefully. Discuss the following:
1. What does the term "author agenda" mean?
2. Name one idea/concept you think may have been a part of the author's agenda. Analyze that idea throughout the book and discuss Maugham's probable agenda concerning that idea.
2. Do you think writers who have an agenda for writing should point it out in a preface?
3. How often do you think fiction is written with a clear agenda in mind by the author?
Essay Topic 3
Up at the Villa, like many, and perhaps a majority of novels, seems to end on a happy note. Discuss the following:
1. Why do you think many (most?) people want what they perceive as a happy or good ending to a novel? Explain your opinion. Do you? Why or why?
2. What are three reasons to read fiction? Discuss each one in light of Up at the Villa and whether or not it fulfills all three, two or one of the reasons you mention. Give examples as to why Up at the Villa is or is not successful in fulfilling the reasons you discuss.
3. Do you think reading solely for entertainment is as good a reason to read as any other? Why or why not? Can any work of fiction or non-fiction, no matter how poorly written, enlighten, teach, stimulate thought? Why or why not?
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