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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 do Blue and Black have their second meeting?
2. What does Black tell Blue that he thinks the man he is observing is writing?
3. From where was Fanshawe's letter postmarked?
4. What varsity sport did Fanshawe play for a brief period in his sophomore year before suddenly quitting the team?
5. What happens when Blue finally decides to contact the future Mrs. Blue?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Blue want to do when he thinks about the future Mrs. Blue? How does this make him realize that he is changing?
2. What does the manuscript contain that Blue takes from Black's apartment after beating him up? How does the story end?
3. During their second conversation, what is Black's response when Blue asks him if the man he watches knows he is being watched? How does Black justify his answer?
4. What does Jane Fanshawe do after lunch? What does the narrator think motivates this act?
5. What is difficult for Blue about writing the monthly reports of Black's activities for White to read? What does he want to include in the reports to make them more truthful?
6. According to the narrator's recollection, why does Fanshawe give his birthday gift to Dennis Walden? What is the outcome and why is this incident significant for the narrator?
7. Who told Blue stories about the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge? What was this person's profession and what became of him?
8. Why does the narrator struggle with showing Fanshawe's letter to Sophie? What does he do instead?
9. About what aspect of Fanshawe's writing do Sophie and Fanshawe disagree? What is the compromise that Fanshawe offers her a few months before his disappearance?
10. Why does Fanshawe continue to address his letters to Ellen even after her breakdown? To whom are the letters meant to communicate?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The New York Trilogy is in part a work of meta-fiction. How so? What does having a character named Paul Auster signify? What does the relationship between Paul Auster and the narrator of City of Glass imply about Auster's attitude towards writing?
Essay Topic 2
The theme of incomprehensibility is present throughout The Locked Room. What makes the writer conclude that life does not make sense? What does this say about the writer's relationship to reality and the challenge of his work?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the symbol of the Tower of Babel in City of Glass. Why is this symbol so important to Stillman? What is his project and how does it relate to the Tower of Babel?
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