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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 does Raymond's mother believe he should attempt to marry?

2. Of what is there a history?

3. What do Raymond and Ben Marco exchange?

4. Does Shaw believe Marco?

5. What does Raymond's mother give him?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Shaw's assassin mind-set triggered?

2. What does Raymond do to Jocie?

3. How is a meeting arranged between Marco and Raymond?

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

5. What happens when it is discovered that Jocie and Raymond have left the party?

6. Of what does Raymond's column consist?

7. Why do these two seem happy?

8. How does Raymond react when his mother schemes to announce Jocie's return to the United States through the Society pages of Raymond's own paper, without informing her son of the development? How does she respond to him?

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

10. How does the scene begin, prior to the shooting?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Josie's husband has died.

Part 1) How might he have died? How do you know this?

Part 2) What purpose does his death serve for the characters in the story?

Part 3) What is the connection between his death and the theme about the love of a good woman?

Essay Topic 2

Ben Marco is Raymond's good friend.

Part 1) Why might Marco be friends with him?

Part 2) What does Marco realize about Raymond? Does he try to help Raymond? Why or why not?

Part 3) Do you believe that Marco was acting as Raymond's friend at the end of the story? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Rosie is Marco's girlfriend.

Part 1) How do they meet? How does he act in front of her? How does she react? Why?

Part 2) Can Rosie be trusted? Why or why not?

Part 3) How is this relationship connected to the theme of the love of a good woman?

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