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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. Who relates that he told an in-law to pass the time playing solitaire?

2. What does the colonel reveal that his investigators have learned about Raymond?

3. In the midst of what do they celebrate?

4. With whom does Shaw clear up a misunderstanding?

5. What will serve as a reunion between Raymond and Jocie?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Mrs. Iselin do on her European trip?

3. What do Raymond and Jocie do?

4. Why do these two seem happy?

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

6. To where is the reader taken?

7. What has happened to Marco?

8. What takes place at their rendezvous?

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

10. What does Raymond do to Jocie?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Iselin becomes an analogue for Joseph McCarthy.

Part 1) Who is Joseph McCarthy? How is Iselin similar to this man?

Part 2) Do you believe the author purposely create Iselin based on Joseph McCarthy? Why or why not?

Part 3) Would a reader need to know who Joseph McCarthy was to better understand Iselin? Why or why not?

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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