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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 Morris buried?

2. Where are the new owners of the grocery store around the corner from?

3. How does the Rabbi describe Morris?

4. Where does Detective Minogue see his son?

5. What does Morris catch Frank doing?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Morris react when Frank tells him the truth about the hold-up?

2. What happens when Helen goes to meet Frank to tell him that she loves him?

3. What arrangement does Karp propose to Morris?

4. How does Helen feel about her father's funeral, and his life?

5. What options are left open for the Bobers and their store?

6. What did Charlie Sobeloff do to Morris?

7. How does Helen feel about Frank not being Jewish?

8. What happens to Karp's liquor store? How does Morris feel about it?

9. Describe the nightmare Morris has. What do you think it means?

10. Describe Helen and Frank's first kiss.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay detailing a plan for re-designing the Bober grocery store and turning it into a successful business. Thing to consider:

1) Products, promotions, specials, and displays to attract and keep customers.

2) The possibility of turning the grocery store into an entirely different type of business.

3) What you feel are the main problems facing the business, and how you will correct them.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay on the use of dreams and dream sequences in THE ASSISTANT. Be sure to address:

1) The role of dreams in the novel.

2) Examples of how dreams have influenced characters and foreshadowed events.

3) What you feel the role of dreams are in our everyday lives.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay describing how you feel Frank and Helen's lives turn out following the end of the novel. Be sure to address:

1) How you feel the character traits of Frank and Helen will determine their futures.

2) Whether or not you think Frank and Helen will marry, and why.

3) Whether you feel the author intends the reader to have a positive or negative impression of Frank and Helen's lives following the end of the story, and why.

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