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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. Who did the narrator's father blame when he found the narrator reading The Communist Manifesto?
2. Where did Colin attend college?
3. To what university did Adrian win a scholarship?
4. Where did Veronica's famliy live when she was in college?
5. Who does the narrator describe as the one who mocked the political system in Chapter 1?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does the protagonist feel that Veronica may be partly to blame for Adrian's suicide?
2. Why do the protagonist and his friends urge Adrian to investigate his parents' divorce in Chapter 1?
3. Who is Old Joe Hunt and what role does he play in the narrative?
4. What philosophical arguments are made regarding the act of suicide among the protagonist and his friends during high school?
5. What is the significance of the memory fragments that are presented by the narrator in the opening of Chapter 1?
6. What is the protagonist's mother's theory regarding Adrian's suicide? How does the protagonist respond to this theory?
7. Who are the "original three" among the narrator's group of friends? How are they described?
8. What are the protagonist's impressions of the Ford family when he meets them?
9. Who commits suicide during the ptrotagonist's high school years? Why?
10. Who is the protagonist in The Sense of an Ending? How would you describe this character?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the narrator/protagonist's experiences when he visits the Ford family home. How does the narrator regard Mr. Ford? What are his impressions of Jack? Why is the narrator taken aback by his exchange with Mrs. Ford?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the revelations that the narrator discovers at the end of Chapter 2. What does the narrator discern to be the real reason behind Adrian's suicide? How does this revelation explain Veronica's behavior? What does the revelation signify to the protagonist?
Essay Topic 3
Analyze and discuss the protagonist and narrator of The Sense of an Ending. What is the protagonist's name? What aspects of his character stand out? How old is the narrator in Chapters 1 and 2? How does his character develop over the course of the story?
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