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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 the only information about the Club's journey to Morelli's flat included in Chapter 113?
2. In Chapter 37, what does traveler do when Cuca and Talita gossip in his apartment?
3. Why does Talita wake up in Chapter 45?
4. Who is the person that Horacio thinks is Maga when he sees her playing hopscotch in Chapter 54?
5. What is the topic of the letter in the Observer in Chapter 146?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is revolutionary about Morelli's forthcoming book?
2. What indiscretion does Horacio commit in Chapter 54?
3. How does Traveler's codependency with Horacio manifest itself in this section?
4. How does Horacio get arrested at the Ponts des Arts in Chapter 36?
5. What dream does Horacio have in Chapter 123, and what does Etienne take from it?
6. What does Horacio do before coming to Buenos Aires?
7. How is the prose style of Chapter 34 unusual?
8. Describe Horacio's dream in Chapter 100.
9. Why are Etienne and Horacio shocked when they get to the old writers room in Chapter in 154?
10. How does the novel end?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The novel HOPSCOTCH owes as much to the modernist movement of the the early twentieth century as the era in which it was written and is set. The most pointed of these debts is its use of stream-of-consciousness logic. Write an essay on the free associative qualities both of the ruminations of characters and the structure of the novel as a whole. Which characters engage in stream-of-conscious diatribes,a nd what fuels these? Moreover, to what extent do the expendable chapters often serve as free association, linking to some aspect of a narrative scene and going off on a digression?
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay about the Serpent Club as a collective. Begin the essay by assessing that the Club wants to achieve with its debates, texts, and listening sessions? Who among them typifies this desire? Who is often ostracized in the search for this intellectual extreme? In the second half of the essay, discuss how the Club fails in this pursuit. Describe the last meeting the Club has and analyze what causes them to turn on each other. What have they lost over the course of the first book of the novel?
Essay Topic 3
The second book of HOPSCOTCH deals primarily with the pained triangle that develops between the Travelers and Horacio. Write an essay about this triangle, assessing what each participant gains and risks from it. How does Manolo Traveler begin to deteriorate mentally and emotionally after Horacio arrives in Buenos Aires? Discuss why this is, and why he insists on keeping Horatio close. How is Talita affected by this codependency and how does this manifest itself in the events of Book 2? In summation, to what climax does all the fretting of this triangle lead?
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