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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 is the first song on their list in Chapter 25 that Barry suggests?

2. Where does Liz take Rob out to tell him to stop phoning Laura?

3. What does Rob refer to Liz as being?

4. What does Laura say she threw at the after-funeral house as well?

5. Who does Rob call at the beginning of Chapter 16?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the protagonist ask about while out with his second girlfriend? How does she react?

2. What happens on Rob's birthday? Who calls?

3. How does the narrator feel seeing Laura after the funeral?

4. What does Rob finally ask Charlie at the end of the night at her house? What does she reply?

5. What does Liz tell Rob when she asks him out for a drink in Chapter 15?

6. Where does Rob go to hide from Laura after the funeral? What does she say to him?

7. Who is Jackie? Why does Rob go to see her? What does he learn there?

8. Why does Laura call Rob in Chapter 25? What does she ask him?

9. Who does Rob attend the funeral with? How does he feel about it? What do they talk about on the ride there?

10. Who does Rob convince to go out on the night of his birthday? What is this group like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the main character in High Fidelity. How do we know this character's thoughts and feelings? What are the objectives which drive the character's actions?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Rob as a symbol for "modern man." In what ways does this character's traits reflect an entire generation? How do his actions?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the various uses of foreshadowing in the novel. Define what the term foreshadowing means and give examples of the text which reflect this literary technique. What is the purpose of foreshadowing in each of these instances?

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