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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. How many "feet per second" (35) is the bullet said to be moving after it strikes a particular object?
2. The man with the pistol offers to allow Anders to perform what type of favor for him?
3. When Anders turns down the man with the pistol's offer, the man with the pistol says, "Then, stop" (23) what?
4. What is Anders's reaction to the word the man utters after he states Anders's consequence for a certain action?
5. Which figure depicted in the bank ceiling mural appears as a cow?
Short Essay Questions
1. What piece of 1940s slang does the man with the pistol use and how does Anders react?
2. Wolff compares the speeds of what two objects within Paragraph 35?
3. What threat does the man with the pistol make against Anders before shooting him?
4. Where are the entrance and exit wounds inflicted by the bullet to Anders's head?
5. To what question does Anders answer, "No" in Paragraph 20 before he fights to maintain decorum?
6. Discuss an instance of irony within the story.
7. What is Wolff's purpose for describing the eyes of the man with the pistol?
8. What season and time of day are portrayed within Anders's one witnessed memory?
9. Discuss an instance of irony within Anders's final moments.
10. What goal does Anders have in mind when staring into the eyes of the man with the pistol?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Look carefully at Anders’s language use throughout the story. What is Wolff’s purpose for shaping Anders’s voice in the way that he does? For example, why does Wolff choose to have Anders make an allusion to an Ernest Hemingway story as he is remarking on the robbers’ use of language?
Essay Topic 2
Determine Wolff’s message regarding the phenomenon of becoming a jaded human being over time.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the reasons why "Bullet in the Brain" uses an omniscient narrator and a plot that unfolds largely in real time. What elements of the story's themes lend themselves to these choices and what are Wolff’s intended effects on the reader?
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