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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Dr. Fagan claims that what he needs in a professor is
(a) A well-rounded background.
(b) Ability to teach.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Vision.

2. Paul is specially assigned to
(a) Teach young Beste-Chetwynde his organ lessons.
(b) First place in the morning bathtub rush.
(c) Fire Captain Grimes.
(d) Teach young Clutterbuck to play sports.

3. What was it that ended Mr. Prendergast's career as a priest?
(a) His interest in social functions.
(b) His attachment to his mother.
(c) His recurring doubts.
(d) His bad behavior.

4. What do Chokey and Mrs. Beste-Chetwynde seem to be trying to convince people of?
(a) That Chokey has uncontrollable passions.
(b) That Chokey is more talented than most people.
(c) That Chokey and Mrs. Beste-Chetwynde are lovers.
(d) That Cokey is just as sophisticated as anyone else.

5. Mrs. Beste-Chetwynde would like
(a) Her son to come home to Chokey for the holidays.
(b) Paul Pennyfeather to tutor her son for the holidays.
(c) To invite Paul to come for a visit for the holidays.
(d) To go abroad for the holidays alone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was it about Paul that led to the attack on him?

2. What was it that his recently fired teacher had, that Dr. Fagan seeks in a teacher?

3. How did the boys get cigars to smoke in the boiler room?

4. Who clues Pennyfeather in about the bath schedule?

5. The charge against Paul Pennyfeather is

Short Essay Questions

1. Philbrick has a great imagination. Of the three descriptions he has given of himself to Grimes, Prendy and Paul, which is the most likely to be true?

2. Can you put together the pieces of Philbrick's story about his sister Gracie, and imagine what the true story might have been? Of course, we do not know, but Waugh hints through his story telling that Philbrick's life might not be great as he says.

3. Why are Sniggs and Postlehwaite especially guilty of the unjust treatment of Paul Pennyfeather?

4. Prendergast seems doubtful about the presence of a new school master at Llanabba. How does that come through in their initial meeting?

5. Although other sports have been canceled due to floods, Dr. Fagan decides on the spur of the moment to hold a major, lavish sporting event at Llanabba because the sun has come out. For whose benefit is the event?

6. What is Dr. Fagan's biggest concern with respect to the sporting event at Llanabba?

7. Discuss how Paul Pennyfeather is able to gain control over his class full of wild and mischievous boys.

8. What is it about Mrs. Beste-Chetwynde that has put Paul in such a state of mind over her?

9. Captain Grimes is in sheer agony over his upcoming marriage to Flossie. How does he pull himself out of his sad mood?

10. The mysterious Philbrick speaks wistfully of his father, Chick. Discuss Chick.

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