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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 is Karl's major?
2. What does Mary remember as they are down the road a bit?
3. What does he say she should do about her commitments that day?
4. Why is there little blood to contend with?
5. Where is Mary supposed to be at one o'clock?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Rowley advise Mary to do before he leaves early that morning?
2. How does the situation between Mary and Karl start to deteriorate?
3. What is said between Rowley and Mary about Edgar and Mary's possible marriage to him?
4. Where does Mary go and why is she relieved when she arrives there?
5. Describe the scene of Mary and Rowley getting rid of Karl's body.
6. How does Karl end up in a concentration camp and how does he get to Italy?
7. What does Rowley ask for that upsets Mary?
8. How does Mary feel about what Karl tells her about his life?
9. What does Rowley point out to Mary to reassure her?
10. What does Nina relate to Mary about what Nina learns from Agata?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Setting as far as place and time play an important role in Up at the Villa, if compared to twenty-first century's social mores. Discuss the following:
1. Compare/contrast several aspects of the setting of that day from how it would be today. Consider things such as cultural norms/expectations, technology, religion and medicine.
2. Do you think Up at the Villa would be different if it were set in the United States of America in that same era? Consider particularly class issues.
3. What issues that are present in the time of Up at the Villa would still be issues today? What would no longer be issues? Consider such things as class, women's roles, sexual freedom, propriety and manners, and integrity.
Essay Topic 2
When Edgar is working up to proposing marriage to Mary and after his proposal, he lists the advantages of such a union. Discuss the following:
1. List three criteria which you believe are essential for a good marriage. Discuss why you choose those three and then discuss if you believe Mary and Edgar's relationship possesses those qualities. Use examples from the text.
2. List three criteria which you believe make a successful marriage impossible. Discuss why you choose those three and then discuss if you believe Mary and Edgar's relationship possesses those qualities. Use examples from the text.
3. Using the three criteria which you list for both a successful marriage and those which would greatly hinder a successful marriage, argue whether or not you believe Mary and Rowley's marriage will be successful or a failure based upon the six criteria you cited.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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