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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 Jim when the shooting in Chapter 8 takes place?

2. In Chapter 2, J. Taylor and Becky go to meet __________.

3. What did J. Taylor pay the butcher's boy to do in Chapter 2?

4. Where is Becky going at the beginning of the novel?

5. What does Becky talk about over lunch in Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is J. Taylor looking for Adelaide? What does Becky tell him about her?

2. What do the Prince and Becky's mother talk about in Chapter 4?

3. What does the reader learn about Becky's background in Chapter 1?

4. Why is Becky walking through the St. John's area of London at the beginning of the novel?

5. What does Adelaide refuse in Chapter 7?

6. How did the Prince and Adelaide come to be married?

7. What does Miss Bevan ask of Becky when they first meet?

8. What does Jim do with the Irish gang?

9. Who is the butcher's boy? Why does J. Taylor give him money?

10. Why must the Prince and Adelaide go to Razkavia?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze Adelaide's role as a protagonist in the novel. What are Adelaide's defining character traits? Whom is she close to in the novel? What happens to Adelaide throughout the novel? What does the reader learn about her past?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze and interpret the secondary characters of the novel. Who are they and what are their defining character traits? How are they related to the main characters? What are their roles in the novel?

Essay Topic 3

What happens at the end of the novel " The Tin Princess "? Is everything resolved? Are there any surprises at the end of the novel? What happens to the main characters?

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