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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. Who is able to read Mallory and tell her personal history like a medium?

2. Who recounts Max's death to Mallory?

3. What movie does O'Connell make references to by Alfred Hitchcock in Chapter 4?

4. What was Markowitz's office's back wall covered in before his death?

5. Who decides to put Coffey on the investigation by starting an office pool?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Margot go to the bank?

2. Why does Margot stab a man in the subway?

3. Why is Mallory disconcerted when she meets Edith?

4. How does Mallory act at the crime scene of her father?

5. When Margot cannot get into her apartment, how does she reveal her desperation in her subsequent acts?

6. What does one of Butler's tenants tell him about the building and other tenants?

7. Why does Mallory run out screaming from the seance?

8. How does Mallory gain access into the theater where Gaynor is?

9. Why does the pawnbroker call Mallory?

10. Despite what limitations does Butler like Cathery?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the concept of loneliness as it exhibits in the story. Which of the characters are lonely? Are they all lonely in some way? Explain the loneliness and the methods and attempts to overcome it.

Essay Topic 2

Explain Mallory's motivation and reasons for paying close attention to the seances. What do they reveal about the murderer?

Essay Topic 3

O'Connell uses more than one iteration on the motif of life-death-life. Identify at least two motifs about life-death-life in the book. Then cite an example to support each answer.

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