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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. Which of the following is not a possibility for Maga's face that Ossip implies in Chapter 29?

2. In Chapter 122, what does Etienne suggest is at the heart of his recent vivid dreams?

3. What is revolutionary about the novel Morelli is writing in Chapter 154?

4. In Chapter 50, what misapprehension do both Horacio and Remorino have about each other?

5. Which two Serpent Club members appear incongruously in Chapter 102?

Short Essay Questions

1. What indiscretion does Horacio commit in Chapter 54?

2. What cold comfort does Horacio offer La Maga in Chapter 108?

3. What is revolutionary about Morelli's forthcoming book?

4. What is revealed in the tape recording of Chapter 47?

5. In Chapter 56, how does Horacio protect himself after he kisses Talita?

6. What do Ronald and Etienne discuss in Chapter 142?

7. How does Traveler's codependency with Horacio manifest itself in this section?

8. What is Horacio's state of mind in this section?

9. What two meanings of the term hopscotch appear in the first book?

10. How is Traveler affected by Horacio in this section?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

HOPSCOTCH as a symbol figures into the novel in several different ways. Write an essay about the use of hopscotch as a literary device, focusing on three different uses of it in the novel?

Part 1) How does the title of the novel indicate an unorthodox way of reading it? Write a paragraph describing the table of instructions provided the reader and how it affects the reading of the novel. To what extent is the reader hopscotching when reading the text?

Part 2) At the end of Book 1, as Horacio is losing his mind and getting arrested in Paris, he begins to ruminate on the game of hopscotch. What does the game become a metaphor for in this rumination? How is this metaphor related to the early purposes of the game of hopscotch?

Part 3) Late in the novel, any reference to hopscotch indicates a loss of sanity on the part of the narrator. Write a summation essay about such references. Who is actually playing hopscotch, and how does Horacio lose grasp of this person's identity when he sees them playing?

Essay Topic 2

The novel of HOPSCOTCH is largely a novel about ideas and flights of bohemian fancy, but existent above and below the would-be sweet life of the narrative is the omnipresent specter of death. Write an essay about death in the novel, focusing on three instances of it. How do the characters struggle and strive to ignore mortality in the novel? How does every instance of it in the narrative seem to shatter some delicate balance? What is destroyed by it?

Part 1) Rocamadour

Part 2) Pola

Part 3) The end of the novel.

Essay Topic 3

The novel of HOPSCOTCH consists of three books: two main narrative books and one compilation of chapters sometimes called "expendable." Write an essay about these expendable chapters, what they contain, and how reading them is essential to understanding the full narrative of the novel. Focus on three components of the story that only appear in the third book. What does having this information do to inform what is told in the first two books? Which characters does it illuminate? Why do you think this only exists in expendable chapters?

Part 1) The affair with Pola.

Part 2) Morelliana

Part 3) The hospital meeting with Morelli

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