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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 name does Bill always call Brian?

2. Which of the following is one of the other workhouses in Brian's Region?

3. What accent is Ann Frame expected to use at her job?

4. What is the wall behind Brian at work meant to resemble?

5. What is Leonard's complaint about lunch?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is ironic about Tom's behavior when Amy confronts him about the letter?

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

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

6. How did Rolph and Brian become friends?

7. What indication is there in the text that Brian's interpretation of "friendship" might be different from the reader's?

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

9. In what way does Brian participate in Rolph's death, and how does he feel about it?

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 that makes and defends a claim about the images of animals in "Ghoul." Be sure to defend your ideas with evidence form the text.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the significance of the floods and other periodic inconveniences experienced by the community in "Ghoul." Support your ideas with evidence from the text.

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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