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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 Pierce have tucked into his pants?

2. Who does Theo tell Willy to forgive?

3. What does Richard promise to stop doing?

4. Who is the longer letter addressed to?

5. What does Biranne hand Ducane?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does McGrath say the room smells so bad?

2. How do Pierce and Ducane get themselves above the tideline?

3. What did Radeecy write in his suicide note?

4. What does Eric write in his letter to Pala?

5. Why do Octavian and Kate decide to forgive Ducane?

6. Why does Judy say she married McGrath?

7. What do the three women write in their letters to Ducane?

8. How does Ducane orgaize everyone when he hears Pierce has swum to the cave?

9. Why does Ducane think the sender sent Kate Jessica's letter?

10. How does Ducane help Biranne in chapter 37?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The author wrote The Nice and the Good in the third person. Why do you think the author chose to write the story in the third person? How do you think the meaning of the story would change if the author wrote it in the first person?

Essay Topic 2

Choose one of the characters alive at the end of the book. Compare his or her character to who he or she was at the beginning of the book to who he or she is at the end.

1) What did your character hope to achieve at the beginning of the book?

2) What events changed your character ideas about life?

3) How has your character changed by the end of the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Identify the main themes of the story. In what way are these themes relevant to the time period? How does the author use character and setting to express these themes?

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