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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. Where does Claude want to take Tod after the party?

2. What does Mrs. Jenning call her customers?

3. What does Tod do after work?

4. What does Tod think when he sees Mary Dove?

5. What does Faye's new boyfriend bring to the apartment?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Tod's new friendship with Abe foreshadow what will come for Tod?

3. What are Faye's plans now that Harry is dead?

4. What is the significance of Harry's death for Faye?

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

6. What is the first physical description the reader gets about Faye?

7. What were the circumstances of Homer Simpson's move to California?

8. Explain how Faye and Homer's relationship begins to go bad.

9. Why is the cock fight party at his house a turning point for Homer?

10. Explain how Tod gets in his own way when trying to make any progress with Faye.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Faye Greener. Why is Tod so infatuated with her even though she is younger than he? How can Tod look beyond Faye's shallow and self-centered personality and want to spend time with her? What does Faye represent for Tod?

Essay Topic 2

Describe a typical day in the life of Homer Simpson. How does he spend much of his time. Who are his friends? Who does he talk to? How does he take his meals? How does he get to sleep?

Essay Topic 3

Why does Tod view the people he sees as potential models or subjects of his paintings? What is the author telling the reader by Tod's fixation? Is Tod a realist or a romantic?

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