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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 Tom Crick think the French really celebrate on Bastille Day when they mark the beginning of the French Revolution?
2. Which of the following does NOT draw Mary and Tom closer together?
3. Which part of London does the couple move to once they are married and Tom takes a job as a history teacher?
4. What does Tom Crick mean by the term "Natural History"?
5. What is the term Tom Crick keeps using to refer to Mary's attitude towards the world when she was an adolescent?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the significance of phlegm for the body according to chapter 51?
2. In chapter 4, what is the reasoning the headmaster Lewis Scott gives Tom Crick for laying Tom off and merging history with General Studies?
3. In chapter 38, Tom describes the death of his mother from the flu. What is most remarkable about it to him?
4. in chapter 15, Tom Crick gives a history of the River Ouse and the Fenlands in its river valley. List at least three details from the river's history.
5. In chapter 40, Tom Crick discusses "contemporary nightmares." What are they?
6. In chapter 2, a student called Price interrupts Tom Crick, the history teacher, to tell him what about history?
7. IIn Chapter 43, what significant change occurs in Tom and Price's attitude toward history?
8. In chapter 17, Tom Crick discusses his difficulties in trying to marry Mary Metcalf. What are the sources of those difficulties?
9. In chapter 50, Harry Crick is bed-ridden in Tom's and Mary's first house in Gildsey. What made him ill?
10. In chapter 47, Tom explains why he thinks Mary's mental illness can't be healed. Explain his reasoning.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Religion is not an overt topic in Graham Swift's novel Waterland, but it certainly recurs as a theme. In particular, Tom Crick discusses religion in respect to two women: Gildsey's patron saint Gunnhilda and Tom's wife Mary. Using specifics and quotes from the novel, retrace the religious development those two women undergo in the novel and compare and contrast them.
Essay Topic 2
During his history lessons, the narrator of Graham Swift's novel Waterland, Tom Crick, stops teaching directly about the French Revolution and instead begins to tell stories about the Fenlands and about his family history. Giving specific examples from the book, explain why Tom Crick does this and what he wants to convey about the meaning of history by employing that tactic.
Essay Topic 3
Sexual relationships and their consequences are central to Graham Swift's novel Waterland. Choose one of those relationships between the characters and their sexuality. Explore why the characters express their sexuality as they do. Explain the consequences these choices have for each of them and for their partners. Analyze in how far their sexual development is tied to external factors--such as social pressure--over which they have no control, and in how far it is their own choices that lead to the consequences that they have to face.
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