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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. Who does Miss Fry live with?

2. Why do they make an exception for Aldred and serve him lunch after closing?

3. Who offers to take Peter on a ship to Australia?

4. What happens to the child Peter takes to the hospital?

5. Where is Brian Talbot going in six days?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Peter become ill?

2. How can the farewell kiss on the ship between Peter and Audrey be described?

3. What do the Fry women think about Helen's love of Aldred?

4. Why does Aldred turn down Calder's offer to work as a spy?

5. What makes Peter compare Rita with Audrey?

6. Why doesn't Rita want to help Peter with the dying child?

7. What are the crisis' that Aldred must deal with upon his return from Nagasaki?

8. Why does Peter attempt suicide?

9. Why does Aldred think the idea of becoming a spy is an impossibility?

10. What does Bertram suggest Aldred do to get the Driscoll parents to approve Helen's move to England?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Aldred, Peter and Helen each deal with loneliness. How does it affect them differently? What do they have in common when being affected by loneliness? What does loneliness prompt each character to do?

Essay Topic 2

Aldred eventually is able to find his way home and make his home a place he wants to be permanently. What helps him make the leap from being a man without a true home to a man who longs for nothing but permanency?

Essay Topic 3

How does Aldred deal with solitude? Is he really unaffected by his propensity for being alone or is he merely coping out of necessity?

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