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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 the phone call entail?

2. Who offers the narrator a reference when he returns to the office?

3. What is the narrator's favorite exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum?

4. Where does Tad claim to have seen Odysseus before?

5. Who does he call the minute he wakes up?

Short Essay Questions

1. What stunt is the narrator planning to pull at the fashion show?

2. Why is the narrator unsettled by the absence of Amanda's mannequin?

3. What job does Michael offer to the narrator, and what are the implications of this job?

4. What is the significance of the rolls of bread?

5. Why does Megan invite the narrator to dinner at her apartment?

6. What does Michael theorize may have spurred the narrator to marry Amanda?

7. Why does the narrator go to the party with Tad?

8. What does the reader learn about Megan's past?

9. Explain Vicky's concept of "ineffability."

10. What elements of the fashion show does the narrator find contemptuous?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The narrator and Amanda were obviously mismatched.

1) How is the narrator's love of fiction detrimental to his relationship with Amanda?

2) What fantasies do the narrator and Amanda make of each other?

3) Though Amanda is portrayed as the shallower character, she is the one to end their fantasy. What does this imply about Amanda?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the conflicts between the narrator's perceived inner self and his outer persona.

1) Who does he really think he is inside?

2) Why is he so reliant on Allagash and the status of his New York social life?

3) How does his job fit into that image?

Essay Topic 3

The narrator is obsessed with the missing person poster.

1) Why is he so affected by the missing person? In what ways does he feel similar to the missing person? Specially, talk about his relationship with his family.

2) If the narrator were to post a missing persons sign, who would be on the sign? Why?

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