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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 is the name of Maurice's son?

2. What is the name of the head of Edith's department?

3. What does Rebecca admit to Edith in Part II, Chapter 7?

4. What happens to Edith at the end of Part II, Chapter 8?

5. Who is the mother of Maurice's son?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Maurice respond to Theo's letter in Part III, Chapter 1? Why?

2. What happens to Maurice at the start of Part III, Chapter 3?

3. What is bad about violence and theft, according to Maurice in the second interlude?

4. What happens to Edith at the end of Part II?

5. What confrontation happens on Christmas? What makes Edith suspicious?

6. Who is Theo Field and why does he write to Maurice? What does he tell Maurice?

7. Who is Daniel's mother? How does Maurice feel about fatherhood?

8. What happens to Edith at the end of Part II, Chapter 7?

9. Who is Henrietta James and why is she angry at Maurice in the second interlude?

10. What has happened to Maurice in the time since the end of the second interlude?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose three characters (other than Maurice) and explain the role of writing as it pertains to their characters and the plot.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the many people integral to Maurice’s life: Edith, Daniel, Erich, and Dash. Does he truly love any of them? If so, whom? What is the nature of this love? What point do you think the author is trying to make about love?

Essay Topic 3

According to Gore Vidal in the first interlude, what happened during Erich’s youth was “all just a circumstance of birth” (111). To what extent is Erich to blame for his actions as a youth? To what extent did he pay for his crimes? Was his fate just?

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