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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. How much longer does Applethorpe think Michael needs to train to be ready to fight?

2. How does Richard respond to his friends who don't want him to see the performance?

3. What does Alec offer Richard when he walks into Richard's apartment at the end of the novel?

4. What is the weather like in Chapter 19?

5. What punishment does the court give Lord Ferris?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Basil Halliday react to the news of Lord Horn's death?

2. What does the Duchess tell Katherine after Alec injures himself?

3. What letter do the kidnappers ask Alec to write to Richard?

4. What does the Duchess tell Alec about Richard and their relationship after Richard has left?

5. How does Lord Horn feel when he finds Richard has broken into his house?

6. How do Alec and Richard react to Lord Horn lying at the trial?

7. How does Lord Horn respond to Alec?

8. How do the men who capture Richard incapacitate him?

9. Describe the Duchess and Michael's first night as lovers.

10. How did Katherine end her position with Lord Ferris?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The world of the novel is run primarily by men, leaving women as players in the background. Discuss the role of women in the novel.

1) What is the place of women in society in the novel? How is the role of women different on the Hill and in Riverside?

2) What is the Duchess's role in society like? How does she gather power in a world where men hold the power? How does she exemplify women among the nobles?

3) What is Katherine's role in society? How is her life different because she's a woman? What hazards and opportunities does her gender create?

Essay Topic 2

In the novel, Richard seeks revenge for Alec. Discuss revenge in the novel.

1) Why does Richard want to hurt those who have hurt Alec? What motives are mixed with a desire for revenge?

2) What other characters want vengeance in the novel? How do they seek revenge? How do characters hurt others who have hurt them?

3) What is Michael's attitude toward revenge? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the characters' values in the novel.

1) What are the values of the lower class? What do they find important?

2) What are Richard's values and how do they drive his actions? What are Alec and Katherine's values?

3) What are the values of the upper class? What do Lord Horn, Lord Ferris, and the Duchess value?

4) What does Basil value, and how do his values differ from other nobility? What about Michael? What does he value?

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