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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. Toward what object does Clare Benecke direct her gaze as she tells Tom Benecke that he "works too much" and "to hard" (6)?
2. How many months would it take Tom Benecke to reconstruct everything that is on the yellow sheet of paper?
3. On what street do the Beneckes live?
4. What action does Clare Benecke take when she reaches the end of the hallway?
5. On what street is the place located at which Tom Benecke had spent "a dozen lunch hours and early evenings" (16)?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the significance of Jack Finney's choice of business field for Tom Benecke?
2. Why and how does Finney portray forward momentum as a negative force within business?
3. Describe the miscalculations Tom Benecke makes when he is preparing to go outside.
4. What event occurs that causes Tom Benecke to bang his head against the building wall, nearly leading to his death?
5. To what aspect of his life does Tom Benecke link his "guilty conscience" (1) at the start of the story?
6. Discuss the use of the sound motif within the first section of the story.
7. What evidence points toward the fact that Clare Benecke often goes out by herself because Tom Benecke has to work?
8. What types of information are written upon the yellow sheet of paper?
9. Discuss the way in which Finney uses the hypothetical with a particular purpose in mind in Paragraph 20.
10. Tom Benecke realizes at the beginning of the story that the feeling he is experiencing is not heat. What is it instead?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the message within "Content of a Dead Man's Pocket" concerning the link between deception and misery?
Essay Topic 2
Explicate the theme of blind ambition within "Contents of the Dead Man's Pocket." What is Finney's message regarding ambition that comes at any cost and how do you know?
Essay Topic 3
Analyze the focus on the theme of determinism in "Contents of the Dead Man's Pocket." What message is Finney sending about fate and determinism?
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