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

2. What does the narrator do after Amanda speaks to him?

3. What phrase does Wade want on the narrator's epitaph?

4. Where does the narrator wake up the next morning?

5. Who does the narrator call after leaving the club?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What catalysts are responsible for the narrator rising early, reading the paper, and arriving on time to work?

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

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

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

6. How has the narrator gotten the ticket for Amanda's fashion show?

7. Why does Michael say he never liked Amanda?

8. Why does the narrator call Vicky after the party?

9. Why does the narrator opt to take Megan's valium?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the narrator's plan to crash the fashion show.

1) Why has be decided to make a spectacle of himself in such a way?

2) How does he think Amanda will react to his presence?

3) What makes him uncomfortable about the fashion show, other than his planned interruption?

Essay Topic 2

What is the narrator's lowest point in the novel, the one that drives him to improve? Is it true that one must hit rock bottom in order to bounce back? What is the difference between the narrator's escapades in nightclubs in the beginning of the novel vs. the end of the novel? Why does he keep seemingly reliving the same night over and over again?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the narrator and his mother.

1) Why does Michael resent that the narrator came only days before their mother died? Why did the narrator stay away so long?

2) What does the narrator's mother reveal to him on her deathbed? How does this experience affect the narrator?

3) Why does the narrator think he has reacted so badly to Amanda's leaving?

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