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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. Who is Tawny Wainwright?

2. What does Fred tell Caroline is above the door of the National Archives in Washington?

3. What do Harry and his sons trap in their fishing nets while Amanita and Caroline have lunch?

4. What happens when Fred continues to read about the Rosewater family in the family history?

5. How does Eliot Rosewater outsmart Norman Mushari in the end?

Short Essay Questions

1. While he is at the news store counter having coffee and Danish with the carpenters and plumbers of the town, Fred tells a story that ends with someone saying to him "God bless you, Mr. Rosewater." Why does the person say this?

2. While he is looking at the books in the news store with Lila, Fred comes across a book that interests him. What is the book and what is it about?

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. Who is Fred Rosewater? How is he related to the Rosewater family in Indiana? What does Fred do for a living?

6. Fred and Caroline Rosewater live in Pisquontuit, Rhode Island. Describe the town and the people in it.

7. Describe Caroline Rosewater's luncheon experience at the Weir. How is she treated? How does she feel?

8. Stewart Buntline is a multi-millionaire who lives in Pisquontuit with his wife Amanita and daughter Lila. When he was younger, however, he had different plans. What were they, and what happened to them?

9. When Eliot comes to and leaves for the Kandy Kitchen to catch his bus, what is different about him?

10. Amid one person after another coming up to him and saying goodbye and good luck, all people he seems not to know, Eliot goes to the magazine rack and chooses something to read on his trip to Indianapolis. What does he choose, and what is it about?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is Norman Mushari? How does he get the information he has about the Rosewater family, their corporation, and their foundation? Why does he react the way he does to the Rosewater fortune? What is his plan?

Essay Topic 2

The narrator explains in the opening of the story that one of the main characters in the novel is money. Describe that character and it's function in the story.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Eliot's analogy of the Money River. How does his analogy compare to society? Can anyone get ahead if there is indeed a Money River?

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