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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. Who is Miss Briggs?

2. What is the vauxhall?

3. What kind of a couple is Major and Mrs. O'Dowd?

4. What happens to Becky Sharp and Rawdon Crawley's house after they return from London?

5. Who is Amelia Sedley's escort in Belgium?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the Crawley household react when Matilda Crawley visits them?

2. What is Becky Sharp up to in chapter 29 to raise her social status?

3. What is Becky Sharp's relation with her son?

4. How does Rawdon Crawley feel when his son is sent away to boarding school?

5. Why does Rawdon Crawley go to his brother's house?

6. Why is William Dobbin called "figs"?

7. What is true of the Steyne family?

8. Upon hearing about his son George Osborne marrying Amelia Sedley, what does John Osborne do and why?

9. What kind of an ending does the narrator envision for Amelia Sedley and William Dobbin?

10. What aspect of Amelia Sedley's personality does chapter 38 highlight?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Do you think Becky Sharp deserves the ending she is given by the author in the novel? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Contrast the two main female characters in the novel, namely Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley.

Essay Topic 3

There are many themes found in the novel. Expand on any two themes that is relevant to the novel and substantiate with examples how the theme is worked into the novel with the help of characters, settings, etc.

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