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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 Cora say about Hickey?

2. What is Willie determined to do?

3. What does Rocky say he is not?

4. Why is Larry angry with Parritt?

5. What is Larry's comment about the others and their dreams?

Short Essay Questions

1. After Larry toasts Hickey and hopes he finds some kind of peace, how does Parritt react?

2. What does Joe recall about the days when he ran a successful gambling house?

3. What have the characters learned about Hickey?

4. How does Hickey believe he can repair the damage done to his relationship with the down-and-outers?

5. How does Parritt feel about the Movement?

6. How does the reader learn about those who had been involved in the Anarchist Movement?

7. What happens when Rocky and Chuck argue?

8. What does Hickey do after he encourages the others to keep drinking?

9. How does Harry react when Hickey refuses to go on the walk with him?

10. What happens when Hickey calls the girls whores?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Several of the characters were members of the Anarchy Movement.

Part 1) Who are these characters?

Part 2) Do they still believe in the Movement? Why or why not?

Part 3) Why are they now at Harry Hope's Saloon and Bar?

Essay Topic 2

Hickey's wife dies.

Part 1) How does she die?

Part 2) Why does she die?

Part 3) How does Hickey cope with her death?

Essay Topic 3

Parritt's mother is imprisoned.

Part 1) Why is she imprisoned?

Part 2) What role does her son have in her imprisonment?

Part 3) How does his role in her imprisonment affect him?

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