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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. How does Marco sleep at Rosie's apartment?

2. What is revealed about Shaw?

3. Shaw does not recognize this person, but after introductions recalls what about this person?

4. Two years later, Raymond receives a phone call asking him to do what?

5. Where does Raymond have lunch with his mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Marco meet Rosie?

2. What does Jorgenson do after this meeting with Marco?

3. What is known about Shaw from the beginning of this flashback?

4. What does this next flashback reveal about Shaw's mother?

5. What happens between Marco and Shaw, regarding Marco's fight with Chunjin?

6. What does Marco tell Rosie?

7. Why is Raymond taken to this sanitarium?

8. When and how does Raymond first meet Jocelyn?

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

10. What happens when the President gives Shaw his medal?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Shaw's mother is a dominating character.

Part 1) How is she a dominating character? Why is she so controlling? How does she affect the lives of those around her?

Part 2) When does she lose some of this control? Why? What does this reveal about her?

Part 3) How does her personality play into the hands of the Communists?

Essay Topic 2

Several flashbacks take place.

Part 1) Describe these flashbacks. What purpose do they serve?

Part 2) How does the reader learn about the various characters from these flashbacks?

Part 3) Do these flashbacks enhance the story? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Raymond becomes an assassin.

Part 1) How does this happen? Why does this happen?

Part 2) What is the connection between this and the theme of man as machine?

Part 3) How does he learn he is an assassin? How does he react to this? Why does he react this way?

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