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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 does the narrator refer to Marie is regarding the bathroom trip at her house?

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

3. How long does the narrator say his first relationship lasted?

4. Where do Dick and Barry both live?

5. What was the name of Charlie's friend who said she wished she could find a guy like Rob?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Rob ask Laura about Ian in Chapter 10? What does she respond?

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

3. What does the performer at the club do after her performance? How does the protagonist react?

4. What were the narrator's first two relationships like and how did they end?

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

6. What happens when the narrator's mother calls in Chapter 2?

7. Who is Dick's new girlfriend? What does Barry do when he hears news that Dick is dating someone?

8. What "astonishing" thing happens at the shop regarding "The Sid James Experience?"

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the structure of High Fidelity. Define the terms exposition, rising action, climax, and falling action in your answer and explain where these are found in the text.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss music as both a symbol and a theme in the novel. What does music symbolize to each of the main characters? How is it thematic to the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the use of narrative in High Fidelity. What is the voice and tense of the novel? How does this affect the reader? Could this novel have been written in a different voice or tense? Why or why not?

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