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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 did Elijah Stern ask Luther to help him with when he knocked on Luther's door for the first time?

2. Who wrote the words that were on the manuscript buried with Nola?

3. What terrible news did Roy Barnaski tell Marcus after he had begun writing his book about Harry?

4. Why did the person writing the threatening letters to Harry stop writing them?

5. What did Travis Dawn bring to give to Jenny when he visited her at Clark's soon after Nola's disappearance?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where was Luther Caleb's body found and what did Gahalowood and Marcus think was strange about it?

2. Why did Luther Caleb's father get so upset when he learned that the name of the girl who had disappeared was Nola Kellergan?

3. What prevented Gahalowood and Marcus from asking former Police Chief Pratt why he did not include the information about Luther Caleb's death in his report on Nola's murder?

4. Why did Jenny file a complaint against Luther in 1975?

5. What did Harry tell Marcus about the importance of failure?

6. What did Harry tell Marcus about working on an idea for writing in terms of time frames?

7. How did Harry react when Marcus told him about finding the painting of Nola in Elijah Stern's house?

8. Why was Tamara Quinn so upset that the note she stole from Harry's house that declares his love for Nola was stolen from her safe?

9. When David Kellergan discovered Nola was missing, how did he handle her disappearance?

10. What did Harry initially mean to do immediately after returning from Martha's Vineyard with Nola?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the significant ways in which the character Marcus Goldman evolves over the course of the novel? Compare and contrast how Marcus describes himself and the decisions he makes in his high school days as "Marcus the Magnificent" and how he describes himself and the decisions he makes as he approaches age 30.

Essay Topic 2

In what important ways are Marcus Goldman and Harry Quebert similar characters? In what important ways are they different?

Essay Topic 3

What does the idea of Writer's Heaven mean to Harry? Write an essay explaining what Writer's Heaven, as Harry describes it to Marcus, symbolizes as the book comes to its conclusion.

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