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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 kind of therapy is the villain receiving behind the door with Greek inscription?

2. What does Amadeus see under his mother's bed?

3. Where does Amadeus keep his journal?

4. With what does Cavendish cut the hero?

5. What book is the hero shown when he discovers the secret room.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do colleagues offer specific praise to Amadeus when he opens his asylum?

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

3. 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?

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

5. Discuss the hero's meeting with Maxie Zeus.

6. What idea does the hero contrive to allow the inmates to decide whether he lives or dies?

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

8. What does Croc symbolize in the novel?

9. What is ironic about Cavendish calling the hero a "mommy's boy"?

10. Where does the blood trail lead and what does the hero realize at the end of it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the importance of mother-son relationships to this story.

Essay Topic 3

Define flashback. How does this graphic novel use flashbacks to tell the story? Choose two different characters and give detailed examples of flashbacks that they experience.

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