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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. Which author does Gideon read to Angela?
2. To which of the following does Gideon direct the sergeant he impersonates?
3. Into whose care is Gideon remanded while at school in his childhood?
4. What does Gideon note had been his last meal before arriving in London?
5. What name does Octavia propose to give to her regular page?
Short Essay Questions
1. What reason for pride does Esther Tull have in her self-stitching?
2. What does Neuilly initially note to Gideon as the focus of his ministry?
3. Why does Esther Tull note feeling called to prayer?
4. Generally, how is the church described in which Gideon spends his first night in London?
5. What reason does the inspector who accompanies Cutter and Gideon to Esther Tull’s lodgings ask to shut the open window?
6. What reasons does Gideon cite for hastening to answer his uncle’s summons?
7. What reason is given for the attempt to prevent Octavia from confronting her editor at his club?
8. What comments does Cutter have about Gideon’s notetaking?
9. What reason is advanced for Strythe preferring oil lamps to gas lamps?
10. Why is Gideon commended to the care of the groundskeeper at his boyhood school?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Assuming that The House on Vesper Sands should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?
Essay Topic 2
Late in the novel, readerly attention focuses itself on the comment that “We can only keep house, in this life. We cannot tear up the foundations” (394). Does the novel support the comment or not? What in the text shows as much, and how does it show it?
Essay Topic 3
Who is the protagonist of the novel? How does the novel support such an assertion?
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