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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 Romy give to Ulysses to give to Alys?

2. Where does Evelyn go to plan her trip with her old friend?

3. Where does Alys go when she leaves Florence for the longer term?

4. Who does Alys go to see a lecture from in Part IV?

5. What covers the entire town after the flood?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Alys's first romance like?

2. How do Peg, Cress, Col, Pete, and Ulysses come into money again?

3. Where does Alys go the year she turns 17?

4. Why does Evelyn tell Dotty she had a special connection with Ulysses?

5. What work does Ulysses set up shop doing in Italy?

6. In Part IV, who goes to find Romy?

7. What gives Cress's life new vitality and meaning in Part III?

8. What does Ulysses lose in the flood?

9. How does Evelyn finally find Ulysses?

10. Who does Alys end up meeting by chance in the train station in Florence who is connected to Evelyn?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why do you think Winman chose to write Still Life from the third-person omniscient perspective, and how does this perspective affect the reader's experience of the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

How does Peg's learning about what really happened to Eddie affect Peg's life after this knowledge towards the novel's end? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

Do you think Winman wants the reader to believe or understand that Alys has forgiven Peg for abandoning her by the novel's end? Why or why not? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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