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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 Mt. Raynor look at through the classroom window?

2. What does Smith say he leaps over while running?

3. What does Harry say he hasn't done for twenty years?

4. What does Harry's wife say reading is bad for?

5. What is Harry doing when his wife tells him she loves him?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Bullivant react to Raynor beating him?

2. What regrets does Mr. Raynor express at the end of the story?

3. Why does Mr. Raynor think he is a good disciplinarian?

4. What do the policemen tell Ernest at the end of the story?

5. What point does Smith make about honesty?

6. What does Harry think about Kathy's death?

7. In what way is Ernest a ghost of his former self?

8. How does the governor make Smith's life a misery for the rest of the time he is at Borstal?

9. Why does Raynor want to punish Bullivant?

10. What is the girls' family life like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does football mean to Lennox? In what way does he use football to hide his real problems?

Essay Topic 2

Why do Kathy and Harry find it so difficult to express their love for each other? What does this express about marraige during this time?

Essay Topic 3

Choose one of the stories and examine what comment it makes about British society? How has British society changed since the story was written? How much was literature and art an important part of this change?

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