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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. When does Johnny begin to struggle?

2. What is revealed about Shaw?

3. Why has a local reporter come by to interview Shaw?

4. What happens when Raymond's mother finds out about Raymond and Jocie?

5. What does Iselin become?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Marco tell Rosie?

2. How does Raymond's life change when Marco moves in?

3. What does Raymond do when O'Neil insists on throwing a welcome dinner for the Medal of Honor veteran?

4. What will Raymond Shaw be receiving?

5. How does the chapter begin?

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

7. Why do others not like Iselin?

8. Why does Shaw end up in Washington early?

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

10. When and how does Raymond first meet Jocelyn?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Shaw is being investigated.

Part 1) Why is he investigated? Who investigates him? How does Shaw feel about this investigation? Why?

Part 2) How does this investigation affect his life? How does it affect the Communists who have programmed him? Why?

Part 3) How does this investigation help or hurt Shaw? Why?

Essay Topic 3

These two themes are connected. What is the correlation between this theme and the theme of man as machine?

Part 1) What are the two central themes? How are they thematic?

Part 2) How are these two themes connected?

Part 3) What is the purpose of the connection?

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