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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Tom dislikes the pike because...
2. What does Tom tell Dick about Mary's baby?
3. How does Harry Crick find out that his son Dick is in love with Mary?
4. What does Dick hide in the mouth of a stuffed pike?
5. What is NOT one of the emblems of by-gone years that Tom includes in his list of memories he wants Mary to recall?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
One important theme in Graham Swift's novel Waterland is the tension between people from different social backgrounds. Choose one of the characters who crosses a social barrier in an important relationship and has to suffer the consequences for doing so. Using specifics from the book, trace the character's reasons, actions, and the reactions of those who are and those who are not from his or her own social class. What might the author be trying to show about history and about society by including the instance you chose in the novel?
Essay Topic 2
One major conflict in Graham Swift's novel Waterland is the one between the narrator, Tom Crick, and the headmaster of the school where Tom teaches, Lewis Scott. Using specific examples from the book, show what the four root causes of that conflict are--a conflict about personality, a conflict about the school's reputation, a conflict about teaching style, and a conflict about the usefulness of teaching history. Analyze the differing visions of the future that Tom and the headmaster seem to harbor and the implications of each of those visions for the future of society.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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