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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 Marco have Rosie read?

2. What will Senator Iselin then do?

3. Marco's squad on the floor watches the proceedings, while the top FBI agents do what?

4. What does Raymond's mother give him?

5. Soon, what does Raymond's mother scheme to announce?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Raymond's costume? What does he think about it?

2. What happens when it is discovered that Jocie and Raymond have left the party?

3. What does Raymond do to Jocie's father?

4. Of what does Raymond's column consist?

5. How does Senator Jordan upset Shaw's mother?

6. Why does Raymond's mother sleep with her son?

7. How does Raymond react when his mother schemes to announce Jocie's return to the United States through the Society pages of Raymond's own paper, without informing her son of the development? How does she respond to him?

8. What takes place when Marco and the G-men meet Raymond in Hungarian Charlie's?

9. What does the FBI learn about Shaw's trigger?

10. What has taken place between Raymond and Jocie's father?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There is a great deal of tension in this story.

Part 1) Describe the cause of this tension.

Part 2) How does this tension affect the characters in the story, as well as the reader?

Part 3) How might this story and tension reflect the lives of Americans at this time?

Essay Topic 2

Communism is the cause of much of the action in this story.

Part 1) What is Communism? How did many Americans feel about Communists, based on the information in the story?

Part 2) How does Communism affect the lives of the main characters?

Part 3) How does the author feel about Communism, based on this story?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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