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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. Why is Annie Lamb unwilling to assist in the police investigation regarding her comatose son?

2. Which of the following characters is not present in the meeting at the beginning of Chapter 16?

3. At the end of Chapter 9, what term does Fallow elicit from Henry Lamb's teacher to describe the boy?

4. With which tertiary character does Fallow recall having a fight at Leicester's?

5. What does Abe Weiss forget about Henry Lamb?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Judy explain Sherman's work to Campbell?

2. How do the Brits at Leicester's generally pay their tabs?

3. Who is Roland Auburn?

4. Describe Reverend Bacon.

5. How does Tommy Killian explain the criminal justice system to Sherman in Chapter 17?

6. What concerns Sherman McCoy about taking Martin and Goldberg to his garage?

7. Describe the speech Lord Buffing makes.

8. Describe the protest in Chapter 13.

9. Why does Sherman McCoy have to go to the toilet at his firm to read the newspaper?

10. What realities does Tommy Killian elucidate for Sherman?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Abe Weiss is in many respects the driving force behind all the action of the novel. Write an essay about Abe Weiss and how the plot is a vehicle for his actions. What does he ultimately want? How does the Henry Lamb case become important to that objective? What measures does Abe Weiss take to achieve this objective through Kramer, Sherman, and Fallow?

Essay Topic 2

As life becomes more complicated and precarious for Sherman McCoy, fewer and fewer supportive people in his life offer him assistance. This is a shame, because those who are not connected to the case are the most sensible and honest around him, his family. Write an essay about the three truth-tellers in his family. How does Sherman lose each of them? How do each of them serve in some way as his conscience?

Part 1) Judy McCoy

Part 2) Sherman's Father

Part 3) Campbell McCoy

Essay Topic 3

In Tom Wolfe's novel, the media is the true arbiter of justice in New York City. If it does not involve a photo opportunity, it does not count and will not register in the public consciousness: Write an essay about the role of the media and how it skews public opinion to a certain end in the novel.

Part 1) How does Peter Fallow's initial coverage of the Henry Lamb hit-and-run turn a "piece of shit" into a priority for the DA? What does Fallow do to juice the scant information?

Part 2) How does the presence of television and newspaper coverage transform Reverend Bacon's meager demonstration in the Bronx into a public movement? What difference does it make in the life of the Henry Lamb case?

Part 3) How does the presence of the media at the Criminal Courts Building alter the nature of Sherman McCoy's arrest? How do his chances of success change?

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