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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Das say giving too much money to the boy could upset?

2. What do the English couple banter with Flora about?

3. What are the only paintings the Rajah refuses to show Flora?

4. What disease does gin and tonic provide a vaccination against?

5. What does Flora say the British have destroyed?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare Flora's character to the person she was at the beginning of the play to the person she is at the end.

1) What did Flora hope to achieve at the beginning of the play?

2) What events changes Flora ideas about life?

3) How has Flora's character changed by the end of the play?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss elements of the narrative structure: exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the novel's themes?

Essay Topic 3

What are the main turning points of the novel? How does Stoppard develop his story to get to each turning point? What happens to the story after a major turning point?

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