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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 will this action do?

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

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

4. When they leave the zoo, what happens to Marco?

5. As the presidential candidate reaches the point in his speech that will cue the gunshots, the FBI agents realize what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the book end?

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

4. 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?

5. What does Raymond do to Jocie?

6. What do Raymond and Jocie do?

7. What is the assassination plot arranged for Raymond?

8. How does Shaw feel about what he has heard from Marco and the G-men?

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

10. What takes place at their rendezvous?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

Raymond is odd.

Part 1) How do you know this? How is he odd? What role does his personality play in his abilities as an assassin?

Part 2) How has his upbringing affected his personality?

Part 3) How does his personality change throughout the story? Why?

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