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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 is Scully's son doing when the men enter the hotel?

2. What kind of card players are the Swede and the Easterner?

3. How does Scully get the Swede to smile?

4. In what timeframe does THE BLUE HOTEL take place?

5. What was the name of Scully's daughter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What role does Scully play in the conflict between the men and the Swede and how does he attempt to rectify it?

2. How does the Swede display unusual behavior after dinner?

3. Why does Scully go to the Swede's room?

4. What happens after the farmer leaves a card game he had been playing with Scully's son, Johnnie?

5. What is the real name of the Blue Hotel and who is the proprietor?

6. With what gesture does Scully get the Swede to relax a little bit?

7. What is the setting for THE BLUE HOTEL?

8. What is Scully's response to the Swede's intention to leave the hotel?

9. How does Scully try to show the Swede that he is a trusted man with a family?

10. How do the cowboy, the Easterner and Johnnie react to the Swede's unusual behavior?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Create a brief character study of the cowboy. What does he look like? What are his positive personality traits? What are some of his negative characteristics? What are his hopes and fears? What motivates him--if anything--at this point in his life?

Essay Topic 2

Create a brief character study of the Swede. What does he look like? What are his positive personality traits? What are some of his negative characteristics? What are his hopes and fears? What motivates him--if anything--at this point in his life?

Essay Topic 3

How does the Swede change over the course of the story? Why does the author make his character so volatile? Is there any significance to his ethnic and cultural background? Explain.

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