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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 term does the narrator use to denote kissing?

2. With whom did the narrator have an affair?

3. What is the top favorite film of both the narrator's parents?

4. Who does the narrator indicate is notably NOT on the list of the top five breakups?

5. Which of these is in the top five recording artists of Penny?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the protagonist discover who "Ian" is? How does he recall this character?

2. How does Rob assume Liz found out information which made her yell at him? What could she have found out?

3. Who does the narrator describe as his biggest love and hardest breakup? How did their relationship begin and end?

4. Why do Barry and Rob have a fight in Chapter 9?

5. Where are the narrator's parents when he goes to visit them? What does he do?

6. What does Rob ask Laura when they meet at a pub in Chapter 14? What does she reply?

7. Who comes to the shop on the Saturday after the main characters go to the pub? What happens?

8. Who is the final woman on Rob's list? How did their relationship come about?

9. Where do the protagonist and his friends go to hear music in Chapter 5? Who do they hear? How does the main character react?

10. What does the protagonist think when he sees the record collection of the woman who called? Why does she have the price she does for the collection?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the theme of Idolization and Reality. How does this theme apply to High Fidelity? How does the theme reflect the main character? How do idolization and reality intercede with the other major themes of the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the phrase, spoken by the narrator, "What you like is more important than what you are like." What does this phrase mean? How does it apply to the novel? Is the character proved right or wrong by the end of the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the themes of death and dying in High Fidelity. How does the death of Laura's father create a transition in the protagonist? How does the revelation of death interact with the narrator's fears of relationships?

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