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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 disease did Homer get?

2. Where does Homer take his walks?

3. How does Harry supplement his income?

4. What is Homer's fear when he takes a nap?

5. What is the content of the note?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Tod so energized to be in Hollywood?

2. What is the metaphor that Tod uses when he thinks about Faye?

3. How does Homer meet the woman that is a big part of his painful memories?

4. How does Tod come to spend his evenings with Harry even if Faye is not home?

5. How does Tod prepare to speak to Faye one more time about working at Mrs. Jenning's?

6. Describe Tod's accommodations in Hollywood.

7. How confident is Tod that he can get Faye to fall in love with him?

8. What has Tod learned in his relatively brief time in Hollywood?

9. How does Homer manage his infatuation with Faye?

10. How does Tod come to know Homer Simpson?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Faye take an interest in Homer Simpson? Why is Homer too shy to even speak when he brings wine and flowers to the Greener apartment? What is it about Homer that makes Tod befriend him?

Essay Topic 2

Explain the foreshadowing of the battle scene Tod witnesses at the beginning of the novel. What does it signify for him later in the story? Why does the author open the story this way?

Essay Topic 3

Explain why Tod is so persistent in his pursuit of Faye even though she has told him she cannot love him. Is Tod obtuse? Is he a hopeless romantic? Or does he simply think he will wear down Faye's resistance with his persistence?

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