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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 color are the tranquilizers Adam takes?

2. What is Adam worried he is incapable of?

3. Who wrote the "Selected Poems" Adam usually carries?

4. What is the first unkind thing Isabel says to Adam?

5. Where do prostitutes sometimes congregate?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Rufina treat Adam the one time they meet?

2. What personal story does Teresa tell Adam the night they first meet?

3. What is the first unkind thing Isabel says to Adam?

4. How does Cyrus feel Jane reacted to the tragedy they experienced together?

5. Who does Adam intend to hurt buy telling her about his reading he did not invite her to?

6. Who performs very dramatically ahead of Adam's readings in Part II?

7. In Part II, what terrible story does Cyrus tell Adam?

8. Who does Adam begin a romantic relationship with in Part II?

9. What does Adam realize after visiting Isabel's family about the differences between them?

10. Who does Isabel take Adam to visit in her family?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Lerner treat the topic of mental illness in the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

How and why could this novel be classified as a bildungsroman? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

How does Adam feel about speaking Spanish at the beginning of the novel versus at the end of it? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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