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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. Who is the muse chapter 5 is named for?
2. Whose house does Thorfinn come back to in chapter 8?
3. What is Thorfinn working on at the start of chapter 8?
4. How many rooms does the laird's Hall have?
5. How does Thorfinn imagine Prince Charles life after the escape?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Thorfinn find when he goes, after many long years, back to the loft where he had locked up Mara's seal skin?
2. Why does the seal girl, Mara, not follow the seal-people into the sea?
3. Who was Revd Hector Drummond and what was he like?
4. What is happening to both the laird's house and the minister's manse in chapter 5?
5. What does Thorfinn take with him when he is liberated from the German war camp?
6. Why are all the doors gone from the island homes when Thorfinn returns to Norday after many years absence?
7. Why did Sophie come back to Norday Island in the end?
8. How is the story Mr. Simon is telling the class (early in chapter 5) relevant to the fantasy sequence in which Thorfinn marries a seal wife?
9. Who is Sophie?
10. Did the peace treaty between Chamberlain and Hitler stop the work on the Norday Aerodrome?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write a detailed character study of Thorfinn. How is he introduced? What are the major obstacles placed in the path of this protagonist? How does he evolve through the book? What does he learn and how does he change?
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay on the idea of a muse, in both ancient Greek literature and here, in chapter 5. How does Sophie function as a muse? Find one example of an ancient Greek muse and compare her to that example.
Essay Topic 3
Although the book is written in English, it is full of a distinct dialect that is Scottish/Orkney. Go through the book, lifting out phrases, words and names which reveal "Beside the Ocean of Time" to be a book written in a very specific and interesting dialect of the English language.
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