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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. What are Visitors called in VICTORIAN WEEKEND?

2. What pastime is available in the Room?

3. What is served to Brian as his lunch?

4. What impresses Brian about the Feuding Ghouls?

5. What sound is used to summon a crowd when a crime has been reported?

Short Essay Questions

1. On page 7, what does Brian find when he rushes from the creek over to Bowling to see what the commotion is?

2. How do Brian's feelings about Amy change over the course of their time together in the Room?

3. What is in Tom's note to Brian, and how does Brian react to the note?

4. Why does Brian tell the reader that they are usually "swamped" with Visitors, and what does this imply about the relationship between narrator and reader?

5. How does Amy use the trust conveyed by her position to protect herself and Brian?

6. How did Rolph and Brian become friends?

7. Describe the Room.

8. Explain the etiquette that governs how workers react to others "mating" in the Room.

9. Where does the story open, and what is happening?

10. In what way does Brian participate in Rolph's death, and how does he feel about it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay in which you explore the layers of meaning in Saunders' use of an amusement park as a setting for "Ghoul." Offer evidence from the text to support your claims.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the perspective on religion evident in "Ghoul." Offer textual evidence to support your assertions.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the significance of the floods and other periodic inconveniences experienced by the community in "Ghoul." Support your ideas with evidence from the text.

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