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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 is Leonard's complaint about lunch?

2. What is served to Brian as his lunch?

3. From context, what must "TinyGhosts" be (11)?

4. How does Amy rationalize her lie about Tom Frame?

5. During the first night they spend together, what does Amy teach Brian?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is in Tom's note to Brian, and how does Brian react to the note?

2. On page 7, what does Brian find when he rushes from the creek over to Bowling to see what the commotion is?

3. Explain the etiquette that governs how workers react to others "mating" in the Room.

4. How does Amy use the trust conveyed by her position to protect herself and Brian?

5. How do Brian's feelings about Amy change over the course of their time together in the Room?

6. What is the source of Ann and Tom Frame's marital troubles?

7. Describe the Room.

8. Why does Brian tell the reader that they are usually "swamped" with Visitors, and what does this imply about the relationship between narrator and reader?

9. Who does Brian see mating in the Room, and why is he surprised?

10. How does Tom Frame end up committing a crime, and how does Brian react?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay in which you analyze how humor is created in "Ghoul." Use quoted textual evidence to support your claims.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay that analyzes the significance of artifice in "Ghoul." Support your assertions with textual evidence.

Essay Topic 3

On pages 33 and 34, Brian says that his intention is to copy and distribute the letters and his own story "so that all may know the truth and be moved to ask, perhaps in some quiet moment, Is this world that we have made (which, for the soundest of reasons, we made, along the way, quite harsh) a world in which lovers may thrive?" Write an essay that explores the meaning of this quote within the context of the story as a whole. Support your claims with evidence from the text.

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