1. 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?

2. How is a meeting arranged between Marco and Raymond?

3. What does Eleanor think about Raymond being an assassin?

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

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

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

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

8. How does the book end?

9. What takes place at their rendezvous?

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

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 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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