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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 do Raymond and Jocie do?

2. When Raymond arrives at the house, of what does his mother inform him?

3. Who does Raymond's mother believe he should attempt to marry?

4. Where do Marco and the G-men meet Raymond?

5. What does Charlie recount telling his brother-in-law to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. To where is the reader taken?

2. Why do these two seem happy?

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

4. What does Marco have Rosie do?

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

6. How does the scene begin, prior to the shooting?

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 does Raymond do to Jocie's father?

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

10. What takes place at their rendezvous?

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

Another theme has to do with the love of a good woman.

Part 1) Who are the women in this story? How are they significant?

Part 2) How do these women influence their men? Why are they so influential?

Part 3) Why does the author use this as a theme? Use the text as support.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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