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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 the phrase "in loco parentis" mean?
2. What does Dick do when he finds the bottle?
3. Which boy is most aggressive about asking the two girls to take their clothes off?
4. What is Ernest Atkinson's reaction to the fire?
5. During the festivities for the newly crowned King George V, the New Atkinson Brewery is destroyed. How?
Short Essay Questions
1. Chapter 16 is titled "Longitude 0°." What is this a reference to?
2. Chapter 49 is one more chapter Tom Crick spends lamenting what happens when idealists begin revolutions and lose sight of their ideals. What is that example?
3. In chapter 47, Tom explains why he thinks Mary's mental illness can't be healed. Explain his reasoning.
4. In chapter 22, the role of Ernest Atkinson in the events of Coronation Day is ambiguous. Please describe the events of Coronation Day and why they appear to have happened.
5. In chapter 42, a new-found confidante helps Mary to get something Mary wants. What is that?
6. In chapter 17, tells a version of the love story between Harry Crick and Helen Atkinson. How did they meet?
7. In chapter 50, Harry Crick is bed-ridden in Tom's and Mary's first house in Gildsey. What made him ill?
8. What is the surprise Tom Crick encounters when he stands up to speak at the end of chapter 48?
9. Chapter 36 is titled "About Nothing." What is the "nothing" that Tom refers to?
10. In chapter 43, Tom Crick parts from Price shouting "don't let him do it!" What is he referring to and what theme that has run through the novel is this a culmination of?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Carefully consider the relationship between the characters Tom Crick and Mary Metcalf in Graham Swift's novel Waterland. Using specifics from the novel, recount the ups and downs of their relationship. What in Tom's and Mary's personalities leads to how their relationship plays out? Finally, analyze what the significance of story-telling (or its absence) is for their relationship.
Essay Topic 2
Graham Swift's novel Waterland is set in the fictional town on Gildsey and along a fictional river, the River Leem. The Fenlands, the River Ouse, the town of Ely, and many other details are, however, real. In a sense, that fact is symbolic for how the novel treats the relationship between history and story. Using specifics and quotes from the novel, explore the relationship between fact and fiction in the novel. Make sure to include Tom Crick's opinions about history in your discussion.
Essay Topic 3
Throughout the novel Waterland, the narrator Tom Crick uses fairy-tale language like "once upon a time" and references to supernatural beings like ghosts and witches while he recounts history. Using specific examples from the novel, deduce why Tom Crick does so. Discuss why he feels justified in mixing history and fairy tales.
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