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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 the couple do each evening on the balcony of their hotel room?
2. What does Robert do to encourage Mary and Colin to return to the bar?
3. What causes Mary and Colin to begin telling Robert about themselves?
4. What question does Robert ask Mary and Colin when he first meets them?
5. Where does Robert sleep when his father is away?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Robert's first meeting with Caroline.
2. Where does Robert take Mary and Colin to eat? Describe this setting.
3. How does Robert's father react to him soiling his study? How does this make Robert feel?
4. Describe the scene involving the older tourists that Colin observes from his balcony. How does the version of the story Colin tells Mary differ from the actual situation?
5. Describe Colin and Mary's nightly ritual (in the hotel room) before leaving for dinner
6. How is Mary's reaction to Robert different from Colin's?
7. Describe Mary and Colin's experience outside of the hospital.
8. What does Robert offer Mary and Colin at the end of the chapter? How do they react? How does Robert counteract?
9. What information about the bar does Caroline share with Mary? How does Mary react?
10. Describe the display in the department store window that both Mary and Colin comment on.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The sexual brutality in this novel is shocking and disturbing to readers. In your essay discuss the significance of McEwan's choice to include it in the story. What does sexual brutality bring to the story? Why is it important? Why do you think McEwan chose to include it in the story line?
Essay Topic 2
Read the two inscriptions at the beginning of the novel.
Discuss the significance of these quote in reference to the novel. How do they fit (or not fit) the novel? Why do you think Ian McEwan chose these quotes? How do they work together to demonstrate the themes of the novel?
Cite several specific examples from the novel to support your ideas.
Essay Topic 3
Throughout The Comfort of Strangers the author explores what it means to be a stranger. Discuss how characters in this novel are strangers focusing on what makes them strangers. Then discuss the author's view of the stranger. Is it better to be a stranger or to not be a stranger, according to McEwan? Why?
Cite several specific examples from the novel to support your ideas.
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