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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 Gary do when he hears the doorbell while in Theresa's apartment?

2. What draws Gary's attention to Theresa?

3. How does the suspect get a job without being turned in?

4. Why does Gary try to gag Theresa?

5. How does the English professor react when Theresa tells him about her pain?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Gary's reaction when police ask him about the contents of his jacket?

2. Discuss the essay Martin challenges Theresa to write and the one she actually submits as her final project.

3. Discuss why Katherine stops visiting Theresa when she is hospitalized for surgery.

4. What is Martin's wife's occupation and what disgusts Theresa about it?

5. Discuss Theresa's childhood physical pain and how it came to be.

6. Discuss Theresa's thoughts the night before she moves away from home to begin college.

7. Discuss Gary's reactions when he hears the doorbell ringing while he is in Theresa's apartment.

8. What helps Theresa out of her post-college graduation depression and why?

9. Discuss Gary's attraction to Theresa and why he was excited to be invited back to her apartment.

10. What does Theresa threaten when Gary won't leave and how does he react?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the author's writing experience and her successes of this book and others.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the importance of sibling order to this novel. Give a brief overview of young, middle and oldest children in a family and compare to Theresa's family.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the role of foreshadowing in literature. What foreshadowing was present in Looking for Mr. Goodbar? Was the foreshadowing diluted since the murder confession was actually the beginning of the novel? Why or why not?

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