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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 Inspector Bruce appears, Paul thinks he is there to discuss

2. The supper party is in celebration of

3. While Paul was gone, Margot has married

4. What has Margot made clear to Paul Pennyfeather?

5. The wedding between Paul and Margot promises to be

Short Essay Questions

1. What is about Margot that is so attractive to Peter? What personal motivation of Margot's does she make very clear to the men around her?

2. Grimes has supposedly met with a terrible death in the bogs. Does Paul mourn his passing?

3. On his way to Egdon-Heath, what does Paul learn ?

4. As they approach King's Thursday, Paul seems to be in reverie. What do his daydreams mean?

5. What does Waugh's final passage about Paul's reading say about Paul?

6. Describe the trait in Paul Pennyfeather that makes him ask Alistair Digby-Vaine-Trumpington to be his best man.

7. The author gives us a clear glimpse of Pennyfeather's future at the end of this chapter. Discuss this seemingly awkwardly-placed revelation.

8. How is Paul given the news of Prendergast's death?

9. Where does Paul fit into Silenus' description of the wheel of life?

10. When Margot announces her upcoming marriage to Maltravers, what is Paul's reaction?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write a detailed essay about the character of Prendergast. He is a complex character about whom we learn enough to piece together a puzzle about his nature. What quality does he represent in this story? Study his thinking and his basic nature as described by Waugh, and try to find some meaning for Prendy's life, and how it compares to others' in the story.

Essay Topic 2

Research and write about the history of the practice of "white slavery" as it is described in this story. Does it still go on? When was it at its peak? Was it always prostitution, or were there other reasons to capture people and enslave them? Is this something that Americans have also participated in?

Essay Topic 3

Many times throughout this story "the war" is mentioned. Write a detailed essay about the effects of world war one on British society. This story was written shortly after the end of the war when the country is trying to recover from its effects. Try to focus on a particular town or township that was hit particularly hard by the war and describe its effects, before and after.

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