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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 does Harvey buy Gilda for Christmas?

2. What is the name of Dent's new assistant?

3. What does Batman drop in the sewer for Solomon Grundy?

4. What does the peddler use to cut Wayne's finger?

5. Who has Vernon discovered a connection between?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Harvey want to release the Irish gang?

2. How does Wayne act at the board meeting at Gotham bank?

3. What do the Dents and Gordons discuss at their New Years party?

4. What clues does the murderer leave at the scene of Johnny Vito's death?

5. How does Bruce Wayne react when he returns to Wayne Manor?

6. What happened when the lights in the prison went out?

7. Who is Calender Man?

8. What are the Joker's plans on New Year's?

9. Why does Carmine think Sal is responsible for the Holiday killings?

10. What do Gordon and Sal both accuse Batman of in this section?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare one of the characters to the person he or she was at the beginning of the book to the he or she is at the end.

1. What did he or she hope to achieve at the beginning of the book?

2. What events changes his or hers ideas about life?

3. How has his or hers character changed by the end of the book?

Essay Topic 2

What are the criticisms against vigilante behavior? In what way does Loeb address these criticisms even to the point of putting his super hero in a bad light? Do you agree that Batman's vigilante behavior has played some part in the rise of crime in Gotham?

Essay Topic 3

What are the differences between a novel and a graphic novel in terms of the following?

1. Language.

2. Character.

3. Structure.

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