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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 does Gordon remember about Eliza much later after they are married?

2. Who has committed suicide?

3. Who enters the house?

4. What has happened to a building Gordon passes?

5. Who is having a conversation in "Experiements With Aliens"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is having breakfast when Isobel goes downstairs and how is everyone at the breakfast table?

2. What does Isobel say about Charles?

3. What does Gordon think of Eliza, and how do Charlotte and Vinny think of her?

4. Who is Lady Margaret and what happens to her in regards to Sir Francis?

5. What is related about Sir Francis Fairfax and his new wife?

6. What does Isobel learn about several of the people in her circle of friends or acquaintances?

7. What impressions does Isobel have about where she is at the end of this chapter?

8. What does Isobel say about Audrey?

9. When does Isobel awake from her coma, and what does she learn about why she is in the hospital?

10. What happens to Lady Margaret and Master Shakespeare?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the following:

1. Compare/contrast Isobel's and Charles' reaction to the disappearance of their mother. How do you think you would have reacted in a similar situation? Explain.

2. Discuss how you would have handled things were you in Isobel at Hilary's party. Do you think she handles the party better or worse than (or about the same) as you? Would you have confided in your someone about the party? Why or why not?

3. Do you think Isobel and Charles should have been taken to a therapist? Why? What do you think the therapists would have said to each of them?

Essay Topic 2

Many books are often made into a movie based upon the book. Discuss the following:

1. Do you think you would enjoy watching a film based upon "Human Croquet"? Why or why not?

2. Do you think the subject matter would be more difficult or easier to portray in film versus in the book? Explain your reasoning.

3. Would you allow your high school-aged son or daughter (imagining you have one) to view the film? Explain your answer.

4. How do you think the movie would differ from the book? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

"Human Croquet" takes place in and about London, England in the 1960s with some flashbacks to other eras.

1. How do you think the cultural milieu of a small English village informs the plot of "Human Croquet". Explain.

2. Discuss the lives of Isobel and her social group in light of the class structure in England at the time of "Human Croquet". Do you think all countries have some form of class structure? Why or why not.

3. How would the plot be impacted if the setting were in the United States at the same time period? Explain the differences.

4. How important do you think it is to understand the setting of a particularly book? Explain.

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