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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who buys a large house in Gildsey for the newly married Tom and Mary?
2. What is NOT one of the synonyms for phlegm used in chapter 52?
3. What does the letter reveal to Tom and Dick about Dick?
4. In Tom's mind, the headmaster thinks of the school as what, figuratively speaking?
5. What to Tom and Mary ask Martha to help them with?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The idea that the landscape of the Fenlands, the River Ouse, the personalities of the characters, and the course of history are closely intertwined plays a major role in Graham Swift's novel Waterland. Describe the landscape as Swift relates it and then choose three characters whose personalities and fate appear to be tied to the nature of the Fenlands. Discuss how that relationship plays out in the decisions and accidents that shape their life. Analyze whether Swift's view of the Fenlands and its people holds up, given the examples you have just described.
Essay Topic 2
Carefully consider the character of Sarah Atkinson from Graham Swift's novel Waterland. Using specific examples from the novel, trace how she captures the imagination of her two sons, of the people of the town of Gildsey, and of her descendants. Finally, analyze what Sarah's life might symbolize in Tom Crick's narrative about the Fens and its people.
Essay Topic 3
In Graham Swift's novel Waterland, one major theme is that of being truthful--both towards oneself and towards others. The narrator, Tom, is the best example for that struggle. Give an example from Tom's story (or from his story-telling) of instances when telling the truth matters very much, but either Tom or the reader cannot tell whether the truth is being told. Explore what difference it would have made in that instance if the truth had been told.
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