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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 Clement post on the Duke's door on the train?

2. What does the Duke learn could be looked at from different perspective in "From His Grace's Journal to Mrs. Pledger's Account?"

3. Why did the staff and Dr. Cox decide to wait so long to tell the Duke about his friend's death?

4. Where does the Duke wish to transport some plates to from the kitchen?

5. During "From His Grace's Journal to Mr. Hendley's Account" what does the reader learn about what the Duke thinks of himself?

Short Essay Questions

1. What can searching for clues outside of the home help the Duke do?

2. What reduces the Duke's anxiety while he is in Camera Obscura?

3. How does the housemaid's account provide a glimpse into the Duke's personality as a child?

4. What happens when the Duke visits Holbeck village?

5. Why does the Duke look through old family things?

6. What does the fellowship created on the ice teach the Duke?

7. Why does the Duke's staff think he needs an escort while traveling?

8. What is included in the Duke's shrine?

9. What does the Duke learn while traveling with others in his room that is in sharp contrast to the fellowship felt while ice skating a few weeks before?

10. What is significant about the Duke traveling between January 6-11th?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the significance of the Duke's discussion of going bald? This discussion is directly related to the theme of death. Explore how this discussion fits into this theme and offer suggestions for why the author chose this as one way to represent the theme of death.

Essay Topic 2

Explore the Duke's reoccurring dream. Discuss the elements of the dream that effect the Duke the most and those elements that shed light on the Duke's life and character.

Essay Topic 3

A reader can look at this story in terms of milestones. Explore the various milestones during the last days of the Duke. Additionally, these milesstones each had a profound effect on the Duke. Analyze how these milestones served to either provide the Duke with information, change his thinking or mental state, or produce some other effect on the Duke.

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