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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 do the Monitors offer to buy Brian when they come to see him in Dining?

2. The Monitors proudly tell Brian that the community's system is "distinguished by its rigor, discipline," and what (28)?

3. What does Brian's ghoul costume indicate that his character did before his death?

4. What city does Brian believe his community lives underneath?

5. What are "SomnoSlams" and "HyperHooper" (24)?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the people in Brian's community find it essential to believe that Visitors will arrive any day?

2. What does Rolph suggest are some possible reasons for their community being put underground?

3. When Brian goes to look for Amy in Dining, what does he think when he sees Jim, and why?

4. What important information does Brian learn from Rolph's letter?

5. Who is Edgar Spengler, and what items does he give Brian?

6. What puzzles Brian about the air, water, electricity, and food that they use in the underground community?

7. What causes Brian to realize that he is in love with Amy?

8. What does Mr. Regis say during the funeral for the workers who have been killed?

9. After finding out what Brian knows, what choice do the Monitors give him, and what decision does he make?

10. When Brian realizes that there are no Visitors coming, what people does he think about, and what does he realize about them?

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 significance of the floods and other periodic inconveniences experienced by the community in "Ghoul." Support your ideas with evidence from the text.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay in which you explore the idea of "today" that Brian is trying to communicate on pages 25 and 33, and how it relates to the idea of hope. Support your claims 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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