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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. When Birkin further questions Moon about why he is there, he says he wants to plot out where an early ___________ stood.

2. What kind of painting does Birkin think the painting is bound to be?

3. What is Emily Clough dying of?

4. What method of transportation does Thomas Birkin use to arrive in town?

5. What does Thomas Birkin look at when he arrives at the beginning of the novel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Birkin think when Keach has not given him his first installment for the work on the painting? What action does he take?

2. How does Thomas Birkin arrive in Oxgodby, England? What does he do when he first gets there?

3. Describe the church in Oxgodby, England.

4. What does Birkin think about after Keach leaves in Section 1? What decisions does he come to?

5. Who do Kathy, Edgar, and Birkin visit on the way home from Sunday school? What do they give her?

6. What is attached to the church? What does it contain?

7. Who gave money to the church in a will? What stipulations do these funds carry?

8. How is the pay for uncovering the wall painting and why does Birkin accept the job at the church?

9. What does Birkin specifically ask Keach if he can use? How does Keach respond?

10. What is Birkin's aim regarding the painting? What idea does he have of the final picture?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay examining the relationships between Keach and Birkin and Moon and Birkin. How are these relationships similar? How are they different?

Essay Topic 2

Birkin falls in love with Alice, but is unable to act on his feelings. Write an essay examining the idea of love within the context of the novel. How is love defined? Which characters does love affect?

Essay Topic 3

Birkin denounces God immediately after he preaches at the Barton Ferry church. Write an essay examining what the novel has to say about the presence of God.

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