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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 paper does Fred read surreptitiously with his coffee and Danish?
2. Who does Lila find asleep on the couch in the study every day when she comes home?
3. Who is Tawny Wainwright?
4. How does Eliot react to the scene in his apartment between himself and his father?
5. How does Eliot Rosewater outsmart Norman Mushari in the end?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who is Fred Rosewater? How is he related to the Rosewater family in Indiana? What does Fred do for a living?
2. How do the Buntlines have a servant, Selena, living in their home? How does Selena feel about living with the Buntlines?
3. Discuss the interchange between Carolyn and Fred Rosewater at the news store. What do we learn about both characters in the short scene at the newsstand?
4. In Chapter Nine, we meet Lila Buntline, Stewart and Caroline's daughter. What is Lila doing in the news store? How does she know Fred?
5. What book does Eliot keep hidden in his office, and why does he have such strong feelings about it?
6. Who is Harry Pena, and what are his different jobs? How does he behave toward Fred? What information is revealed about Fred in their meeting?
7. In the end, Eliot outsmarts Mushari and others who think he is idealistic and insane. How does he do this?
8. When Norman Mushari has driven around Pisquontuit looking for Fred to no avail, how does he spend the rest of his afternoon?
9. When Fred cannot finish the history of his family, which he has found atop the cupboard in the basement, he prepares to hang himself from a pipe in the basement. What happens to save Fred's life?
10. Fred and Caroline Rosewater live in Pisquontuit, Rhode Island. Describe the town and the people in it.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In the letter Eliot writes to be given to his heir, he expresses strong feelings about government in America, about the Utopia the Founding Fathers hoped to create, and what has gone wrong. What are his opinions? How does he feel about having such a large amount of money?
Essay Topic 2
One theme in literature is the relationship between good and evil and how it affects the characters in the novel. Discuss the powers of good and evil in this novel in both plot and character development.
Essay Topic 3
McAllister tells Stewart Buntline "giving away a fortune is a futile and destructive thing." Stewart Buntline chooses not to give his fortune away; Eliot Rosewater takes another course. Compare and contrast these two men, their backgrounds and their adult lives.
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