| 1. Do you have a room of you own? What measure/measures do you take to claim your ownership?
2. Assuming that you have a yard or a garden where you plant many fruit trees, what would you do if the trees yield fruit outside over the fence of your yard/garden?
3. Why does Forster refer to Americans at the beginning of the essay? (Hint: Forster is English. Consider the English/American difference.)
4. Find out the stories of the allusions that Forster mentions in paragraph 2 and then discuss the effect they achieve.
5. Analyze the rhetorical elements used in the topic sentences from paragraphs 2 through 6 and discuss how the elements contribute to the clarity and the presentation of the thesis of the essay.
6. What does Forster mean by the "quadruple crown" in paragraph 7?
7. Identify the persona Forster creates in the essay. What criticism does Forster try to give in the last sentence of the essay and how does the criticism relate to the persona?
8. What techniques does Forster use to create a conversational style and what is the effect of this style? (Hint: Observe paragraphs 1, 4, and 7.)
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