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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 image represents the hero at the end of the novel?

2. What does the man inside the room with Greek inscription say empowers him?

3. To whom does the book belong that the hero is shown in the secret room?

4. What does Two Face knock down at the end of the novel?

5. During their fight, what does Cavendish call the hero?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does a memory from decades earlier described in Arkham's journal relate to the hero?

2. What does Croc symbolize in the novel?

3. Explain how a statue helps save the hero's life.

4. Who is the little girl at the end of the novel and why are her panels important?

5. Name one way in which the moon is symbolic of the Joker.

6. Explain why Cavendish gets involved in crossing the lives of Arkham and the hero.

7. How are the challenges facing the hero as he walks through the asylum parallel to Arkham's own challenges as simultaneously reflected in his journal?

8. How does Arkham get the laughing he hears from an empty room to stop. Why does this work?

9. Why doesn't the hero simply leave once Cavendish has been killed? What does he do instead?

10. What effect has the secret room had on Cavendish and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Name and define the five types of conflict. Which type of conflict is present in this graphic novel?

Essay Topic 2

Write a history of the graphic novel as a genre and include a brief review of the history of DC Comics.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast Batman and Amadeus Arkham. How do their parallel stories finally intersect?

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