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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 painted the picture of Chatterton's dead body?

2. Which of the following poets did Chatterton not forge?

3. What are the curtains drawn to protect?

4. What does Chatterton describe the child's shirt as?

5. What does Charles tell Edward he could injure?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Wallis think about George and Mary Meredith?

2. How does Chatterton spend his night?

3. How does Harriet persuade Cumberland to authenticate her painting?

4. How does Chatterton help the street urchin?

5. What does Chatterton do during the morning?

6. What do Wallis and Meredith see while they are working?

7. How does the scene change when Mary arrives?

8. In what way do Charles and Vivien view Chatterton's papers differently?

9. How does Charles die?

10. Where are all the characters when Charles dies?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the characters alive at the end of the book. Compare his or her character to who he or she was at the beginning of the book to who he or she is at the end.

1) What did your character hope to achieve at the beginning of the book?

2) What events changed your character ideas about life?

3) How has your character changed by the end of the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Replace the play's London setting with one of the following cities:

1. New York.

2. Paris.

3. Chicago.

What new meaning would the new setting give the book? How important is setting for developing meaning in a story?

Essay Topic 3

Aside from the main characters, examine the way the author uses the other characters in the book. When does he introduce and take them away from the story? What effect does it have on the story?

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