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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. When Robert asks Margot what she wants to do after sex, she imagines herself telling him what?

2. Robert has a shelf full of what objects inside his house?

3. Not long before Robert kisses Margot for the first time on the lips, he had kissed her where?

4. Arguing with Margot about her age, Robert insists that she had undertaken what?

5. Margot reflects upon the fact that she has never gone to what sort of location in order to have sex before?

Short Essay Questions

1. What two competing emotions does Margot feel when Robert kisses her for the first time?

2. What are Margot's hypotheses about why Robert seems much more relaxed once they are the bar?

3. Of what knowledge does Margot feel sure as she tells Robert that he must consider her an idiot?

4. Margot feels that Robert's jokes about which aspect of her personality are unfair?

5. How does Robert react when Margot is rejected at entrance to the underground bar?

6. What element of sex does Margot realize she loves most?

7. What marked difference does Margot see between the experience with Robert and her previous sexual experiences?

8. What are the exact details that Margot notices just before deciding (privately) that she does not want to have sex with Robert?

9. What are the reasons why Margot goes ahead with sex with Robert?

10. In what kinds of behaviors does Margot engage that appear to have a "palpable and immediate effect on him" (85)?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze Roupenian’s focus on the motif of misunderstanding within the narrative of "Cat Person." What message is Roupenian sending about this aspect of the human condition?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze the ways in which the themes of adaptability and resignation appear within Roupenian’s story "Cat Person." What message is Roupenian sending about these two themes over the course of the story’s narrative?

Essay Topic 3

William Faulkner once famously claimed that the most important literature deals with the subject of the human heart in conflict with itself. Explain how the theme of Human versus Self is demonstrated within Roupenian’s story "Cat Person." Create a decisive, arguable claim and prove it with quotes from the story.

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