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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. In a flashback to the Korean War, what are Ed Mavole and Bobby Lembeck doing?

2. What does Marco do one night?

3. What does Colonel Marco gains the opportunity to submit?

4. Why does Raymond's mother want to bring him to Europe?

5. Early the next morning, what interrupts Shaw and the young newspaperwoman in the act of sex?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Rosie want to help Marco?

2. What will Raymond Shaw be receiving?

3. How does Raymond end up taking a trip to Europe with his mother?

4. What does Senator John Iselin proclaim?

5. What does Raymond tell his mother about Marco? How does she react?

6. How do Marco and Chunjin get into a fight?

7. Why is Raymond taken to this sanitarium?

8. How does Marco meet Rosie?

9. What is learned about Eleanor in this flashback? How does Raymond feel about this?

10. Why does Shaw end up in Washington early?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

One of the central themes is the idea of man as machine

Part 1) How is man a machine in this story?

Part 2) What are the author's thoughts about this theme, based on this novel?

Part 3) How does this theme relate to real life and life today? Use the text to support your response.

Essay Topic 2

Ben Marco is Raymond's good friend.

Part 1) Why might Marco be friends with him?

Part 2) What does Marco realize about Raymond? Does he try to help Raymond? Why or why not?

Part 3) Do you believe that Marco was acting as Raymond's friend at the end of the story? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Raymond has a strange relationship with his mother.

Part 1) Describe their relationship. How do the flashbacks assist you in understanding their relationship?

Part 2) Has their relationship always been strange? Why or why not?

Part 3) Based on their relationship, how might Raymond have felt about killing his mother, if he had come out of the trance instead of dying?

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