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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. As what does Mrs. Iselin's tour of Europe prove?

2. When did Raymond's mother discover her son was the assassin?

3. What will Senator Iselin then do?

4. When they leave the zoo, what happens to Marco?

5. Meanwhile, what is Raymond's American field handler doing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Raymond do to Jocie's father?

2. How does the book end?

3. How does Jocie interfere with Raymond's programming?

4. What does Raymond do to Jocie?

5. Why does Raymond's mother sleep with her son?

6. What gives a hint to the identity of a character previously mentioned?

7. What has taken place between Raymond and Jocie's father?

8. How does Senator Jordan upset Shaw's mother?

9. Of what does Raymond's column consist?

10. How does Shaw feel about what he has heard from Marco and the G-men?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A wide range of emotions are expressed in this story.

Part 1) Give four examples of emotions and when they are expressed.

Part 2) What is the purpose of this spectrum of emotions?

Part 3) How do these emotions reflect the feelings of those living at this time in history? How might it affect readers differently today? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Shaw's mother is a dominating character.

Part 1) How is she a dominating character? Why is she so controlling? How does she affect the lives of those around her?

Part 2) When does she lose some of this control? Why? What does this reveal about her?

Part 3) How does her personality play into the hands of the Communists?

Essay Topic 3

Raymond is in love with Jocie.

Part 1) Who is Jocie? How did they meet? How did he fall in love with her?

Part 2) How does their earlier relationship assist Marco? What does this earlier relationship reveal about the changes in Raymond?

Part 3) What is the correlation between Raymond's relationship with Jocie and the theme of the love of a good woman?

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