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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 title of Part II?

2. How many soldiers walk past the argument between Rosie and Freddy?

3. At the wedding reception, what does Roberta say when she is asked if she is the bride?

4. How does the narrator describe Tommy?

5. Why does Georgette go to Brooklyn at the beginning of Part II?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator describe Tommy's friend, Spook?

2. Outside of the Greek diner, what does Georgette tell Vinnie?

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

4. What new life event does Tommy announce one day at the Greek diner?

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

6. What is the narrative structure throughout the novel?

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

8. What does Freddie tell the police officers about Rosie when they arrive on the scene?

9. When Spook goes into motorcycle shops, what does he do?

10. What happens to Suzy and Tommy towards the end of their wedding reception?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay analyzing Georgette's relationship with Vinnie. What is the basis of their relationship? Why do the men who hang out at the Greek diner, including Vinnie, simultaneously harass yet admire Georgette?

Essay Topic 2

What character changes in Last Exit to Brooklyn? What character does not change in the novel? What distracts this character from understanding him/herself and what makes this character feel whole, completely his/herself?

Essay Topic 3

Last Exit to Brooklyn is told through a third person point of view. Analyze the author's choice to tell the story from this perspective. How does this point of view affect the plot of the novel? How does viewing the world through a third person's eyes help readers think about society, and Brooklyn in particular, at large?

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