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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. Where do Joe and Beck consummate their relationship?

2. Who does Joe hire to work weekends?

3. When someone breaks into Peach's apartment, how does Beck respond?

4. What surprising item does Joe discover inside Peach's apartment?

5. Peach's death is listed as what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where do Joe and Beck consummate their relationship? What is the outcome?

2. Describe Joe and Beck's romantic date.

3. Why is there a hole in Joe's wall? How does he explain it to Beck?

4. Why does Joe attend the Charles Dickens Festival? What does he do there?

5. Who is Karen Minty? How does Joe's relationship with her begin and end?

6. Who is the Captain? Who does Joe initially fear he is? How does the learn the Captain's true identity?

7. Why does Joe offer Beck a job at the bookshop? Who is an obstacle to her working there? Why?

8. How does Joe end up alone in Dr. Nicky's office? What does Joe do while alone?

9. What do Beck and Peach learn while in Little Compton? What happens to Peach?

10. Why does Joe fire Curtis from the bookshop?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay defining love from Joe’s perspective. What is love, according to Joe?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay exploring how Joe’s relationship with Beck changes over the course of the novel.

Essay Topic 3

Analyze how the novel’s settings influence both the character of Joe and the novel’s plot.

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