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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 Charlie recount telling his brother-in-law to do?

2. How did most people react to Raymond?

3. What do Raymond and Ben Marco exchange?

4. As she is speaking, what does Raymond's mother realize about him?

5. For what does Raymond volunteer?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why do these two seem happy?

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Shaw's mother is a dominating character.

Part 1) How is she a dominating character? Why is she so controlling? How does she affect the lives of those around her?

Part 2) When does she lose some of this control? Why? What does this reveal about her?

Part 3) How does her personality play into the hands of the Communists?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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