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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 are Iselin's law practices?

2. What does Raymond do to O'Neill?

3. Who is O'Neil?

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

5. What is Marco trying to remember?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Raymond say when Marco tells him about his dreams?

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

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

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

5. Why do others not like Iselin?

6. Why does Chunjin arrive at Shaw's office?

7. What happens to Marco one night?

8. What does Raymond's mother do when she finds out about her son's relationship with Jocie?

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

10. What does Senator John Iselin proclaim?

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

Raymond is in love with Jocie.

Part 1) Who is Jocie? How did they meet? How did he fall in love with her?

Part 2) How does their earlier relationship assist Marco? What does this earlier relationship reveal about the changes in Raymond?

Part 3) What is the correlation between Raymond's relationship with Jocie and the theme of the love of a good woman?

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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