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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 Harding's first name?

2. What is the relationship between Harding and the bishop?

3. Grantly plans to win the case against Harding by saying he has what role at the hospital?

4. What does Harding demand to see a copy of in Chapter 9, "The Conference"?

5. What is the name of the old men's home where Harding works?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Harding's relationship to the Bishop of Barchester?

2. How does Hiram's Hospital come to exist?

3. What happens when Bold goes to visit Harding, hoping to demand a detailed statement of the hospital's accounts?

4. How do Grantly and his lawyer prepare for the possibility that the beadsmen will take legal action against Harding?

5. Why does the narrator say he has made up the town of Barchester?

6. What happens after Eleanor reproaches Bold for being at odds with her father?

7. What do Grantly and the bishop tell Harding that Sir Abraham has said about their legal case?

8. What do Grantly and the bishop tell Harding when he asks what should be done about the slander the Jupiter published against him?

9. How does Bunce react when he finds out that most of the beadsmen have already signed the petition saying that they deserve a much bigger share of the hospital's money?

10. How does a newspaper article describe Harding?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explore the character of Anticant. Why is it important that Anticant cannot see anything other than "good" and "evil" within a person's motives? How does this relate to the novel as a whole? Who else in the novel seems to have trouble seeing any gray area when it comes to good and evil?

Essay Topic 2

Look at Harding's reasoning for giving up his position as warden. Why does he do this, even though Bold drops the lawsuit? Do you think he made the right decision? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

What is the significance of the articles about Harding in "The Jupiter" and the two magazines that harshly attack him? What can be learned about Harding by looking at these articles? What can be learned about him from his reaction to his bad press? What does the author seem to be saying about people and gossip?

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