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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. In Chapter 9, what does the person that Lancelot is asking the questions of respond when asked the questions?
2. In Chapter 7, Lancelot talks about the weather, telling his friend a story about what?
3. In Lancelot's weather story in Chapter 7, what did the couple in the story confess?
4. What did Lancelot actually do with the money he withdrew from the bank in Chapter 8?
5. In Chapter 7, in preparation for the storm, what did Lancelot come home to find his wife doing?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Lancelot think women are ruining society?
2. What does Lancelot do that makes the reader wonder if he is really being let out of the hospital?
3. After viewing the tapes, what does Lancelot tell Merlin to do and why?
4. What does Lancelot think about his son's decision to become a homosexual?
5. What does Lancelot confess when he recalls the first time he made love to Margot?
6. What are two things Lancelot does not want in his new world?
7. What does Lancelot do to the pipe in the basement?
8. What is the role Margot is supposed to play in the movie?
9. What does Lancelot confess about his feelings the night of the killing?
10. What did Raine give Lancelot before the storm?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What does the movie industry and movies symbolize to the different characters in the book? Do the different types of movies symbolize different thing? Explain the symbolism of the movies for Lancelot, Margot and Lucy.
Essay Topic 2
Using the book to support your answer, explain whether neglect is a theme of the book, and how it is used.
Essay Topic 3
What is a "foil" in literature? What is the purpose of the foil? Give at least two examples of characters in this book who function as foils and describe their purpose.
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