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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 is the name of Colin's cousin?

2. How does the narrator say he would get to Glasgow?

3. What is the top and back of Bert's head padded by?

4. Why does the woman think the goal should have been disallowed?

5. What does Jim tell his mother he has been through in the last six months?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator describe Jim's mother?

2. What do Bert and Colin do on the way home?

3. How does Jim's mother react to him telling her he is getting married?

4. What efforts do Bert and Colin make to get more money?

5. How do Lennox and Fred's views on marriage differ?

6. What are Fred and wife's views about what is happening next door?

7. How does Jim's fiance surprise the neighbors?

8. Why is Lennox so upset at the beginning of this story?

9. What does the narrator say about his families' black looks?

10. How are Bert and Colin different to each other?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the author's life. In what way is his life and personality is reflected in the book?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

In what way does Sillitoe suggest that the vigors of working class life is destroying marriages? What does lennox suggest his marriage was like in the early years?What does Fred's marriage symbolize in the story? How can Fred can prevent his marriage going the same way as Lennox's marriage?

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