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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. How many shots do they hear?

2. What does she reveal about Raymond?

3. In what does Chunjin insist on driving his boss?

4. What happens during the first day of ceremonies?

5. From where does Shaw phone Marco?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do these two seem happy?

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

3. How does the book end?

4. What is the assassination plot arranged for Raymond?

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

6. What does Marco have Rosie do?

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 Jocie say about Raymond?

9. Of what does Raymond's column consist?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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