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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. On page 26, Brian notes that they do get electric power, "albeit sporadically." What is he saying about the electricity?
2. What does Brian's ghoul costume indicate that his character did before his death?
3. Where does Amy run to when she sees what is happening to Brian?
4. What guess does Rolph make about who knows why they are living underground?
5. After Amy leaves to go to DISCO LOVE NEST, what is Brian's response to the shimmering lights and swaying trees?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe how the bodies of dead workers are disposed of.
2. What important information does Brian learn from Rolph's letter?
3. After finding out what Brian knows, what choice do the Monitors give him, and what decision does he make?
4. How is Brian feeling when he first heads over to Dining to look for Amy, and why?
5. What is the Slough?
6. When Brian goes to look for Amy in Dining, what does he think when he sees Jim, and why?
7. When Brian is looking for Amy in Dining, who finds Brian, and what do they want from him?
8. After the funeral, what conflicting feelings does Brian have about his relationship with Amy and Law 6?
9. What puzzles Brian about the air, water, electricity, and food that they use in the underground community?
10. Who is Edgar Spengler, and what items does he give Brian?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay that analyzes the symbolic value of caves in "Ghoul." Support your ideas with evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that analyzes the purpose of the exposition about the "Slough" (24-25). 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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