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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. Where is Pat from?
2. Which of the friends seems most affected by the temptations of summer?
3. What does Nobby's landlady tell him he must feed his dog?
4. What does Gallows toss to Syl as he leaves him outside the final hotel?
5. Based on the amount of detail given in the passage that describes Charlie Victor's feelings about West Indian culture, what does he seem to miss the most?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain Matilda's "excursion" plan.
2. When the friends come to Bat's apartment to ask for their money back, how does Bat use their feelings for Harry to manipulate them?
3. What does Teena expect from Fitz during the excursion, and how does he get out of doing what she asks?
4. Describe Bat's reaction to Matilda's suggestion about the excursion.
5. When, outside the final hotel, Gallows asks whether Syl got Pat an Indian curry, what is he referring to, and what is Syl's reply?
6. How did Nobby end up with a dog?
7. What story about finding money did Alfy once tell Gallows?
8. Describe the crowd's behavior on the bus on the way to Hamdon Court.
9. What does Poor do to disrupt the excursion, and why does he do it?
10. How does Bat manipulate the situation so that he is the one who ends up with Pat?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Do some research on portrayals of West Indians in the literature and culture of Britain prior to the 1970's. Write an essay that places The Housing Lark within this context, making and defending a claim about whether or not The Housing Lark functions as an act of opposition to the dominant culture in this time and place. Support your ideas with evidence from the text, and cite all sources in MLA format.
Essay Topic 2
In one lesson, you imagined a possible ending for The Housing Lark and then explained what messages your proposed ending would send regarding the tension between the pragmatic and the ideal. Now that you have finished the book, write an essay that analyzes its actual ending: explore the ideas about "use" and "dreaming" conveyed by this ending. Support your ideas with evidence from the text, and cite all sources in MLA format.
Essay Topic 3
What are the various functions of the West Indian vernacular language used in The Housing Lark? Why does it matter that this is the dialect used by the narrator? How does this dialect contribute to meaning and tone? Write an essay that takes and defends a position on these issues. Support your ideas with evidence from the text, and cite all sources in MLA format.
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