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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 begin to remember?

2. What surface emotions does Shaw reveal?

3. When does Marco enter the box?

4. Why is another shot heard?

5. Who celebrate a rare moment alone?

Short Essay Questions

1. What takes place during the first days of the ceremonies?

2. What do Raymond and Jocie do?

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

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

5. Of what does Raymond's column consist?

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

7. How does Senator Jordan upset Shaw's mother?

8. Why do these two seem happy?

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

10. How does the book end?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There is a great deal of tension in this story.

Part 1) Describe the cause of this tension.

Part 2) How does this tension affect the characters in the story, as well as the reader?

Part 3) How might this story and tension reflect the lives of Americans at this time?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Rosie is Marco's girlfriend.

Part 1) How do they meet? How does he act in front of her? How does she react? Why?

Part 2) Can Rosie be trusted? Why or why not?

Part 3) How is this relationship connected to the theme of the love of a good woman?

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