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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 record plays on the jukebox that the hipsters do not like?

2. Who is Alex in Part I?

3. What was Tommy's initial plan for the wedding reception?

4. What does Alex warn the boys about at the end of Part I?

5. Where are the soldiers from in Part I?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the novel open in Part I? What are the characters doing?

2. What quote from the Bible opens Part II?

3. How does Georgette sneak out of her mother's apartment once she is back home?

4. Why does Georgette's brother, Arthur, not like her?

5. What do people say about Spook related to spending money?

6. What are Vinnie's criminal charges and how long has he gotten in trouble with the law?

7. Where does Vinnie send Georgette after the accident?

8. What is the narrative structure throughout the novel?

9. How does the narrator describe Tommy at the beginning of Part III?

10. Once at Goldie's apartment, what do the queens, Georgette and Goldie, discuss?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay describing and then analyzing Georgette's relationship to her mother and brother in the novel. How do these relationships impact her life? Why is Arthur so aggressive towards Georgette?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay describing and analyzing what you think the title, Last Exit to Brooklyn, means and how it relates to the characters' lives.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay examining the end of Last Exit to Brooklyn. Which characters become at peace with themselves? Who never accepts themselves or their situation? Why are they accepted or rejected?

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