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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 Raymond's column report?

2. What has Shaw been having?

3. What does Marco have Rosie read?

4. From where does Shaw phone Marco?

5. When does Marco enter the box?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What takes place at their rendezvous?

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

4. To where is the reader taken?

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

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

7. How does Jocie interfere with Raymond's programming?

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

9. How is Shaw's assassin mind-set triggered?

10. What do Raymond and Jocie do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Raymond becomes an assassin.

Part 1) How does this happen? Why does this happen?

Part 2) What is the connection between this and the theme of man as machine?

Part 3) How does he learn he is an assassin? How does he react to this? Why does he react this way?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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