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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 Cecelia die of?

2. Where is Stahr when the woman from the flood tells him her story?

3. Who does Stahr ask Cecelia to set up a meeting with for him?

4. What does Stahr look at after his meeting with the person he saw after lunch?

5. Why does Stahr ask Cecelia to set up a meeting with a political extremist?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Stahr find in his office after he looks at the afternoon dailies?

2. What do we learn when Stahr has a quick check-up with his physician?

3. What is in the letter that Kathleen left in Stahr's car?

4. What happens when Stahr sees the other girl he met at the flood?

5. What does Stahr do to help the man who tried to commit suicide?

6. What happens when Cecelia tells Stahr how she feels about him?

7. What does Stahr realize when he meets with the girl from the flood?

8. Why does Stahr want a meeting set up between him and members of the Communist Party?

9. What happens when a phone begins to ring at Stahr's unfinished house?

10. What happens just before Stahr leaves his office for the day and how does Stahr respond to this?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Anger is an emotion that emerges in a few very sensitive places in the plot. What are some of these instances, and how are the outcome of the plot and the characters involved in those scene affected by this anger?

Essay Topic 2

This book takes place in a few different settings. Describe some of these settings and how they affect the course of the plot. Why might Fitzgerald have chosen these particular places for this plot to take place?

Essay Topic 3

Courage and fear are two attributes seen a number of times in this book. Where do they appear, and how does the presence of these feelings change the characters who are involved in those scenes?

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