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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 say he wants from Bill?

2. How did Scott first make contact with Bill?

3. What does Scott say someone sent Bill in the mail in the sixties?

4. What is the name of Karen's father?

5. What does Bill describe to Brita?

Short Essay Questions

1. With what does Scott say he has experience since his time in the city?

2. How does Charlie try to get Bill to help him?

3. What does Bill imagine about Brita's life?

4. What is Karen watching on television?

5. What does Karen think of her parents?

6. How does Karen escape her cousins at the airport?

7. How does Charlie want Bill to help him with the hostage in Beirut?

8. How does the author describe Reverend Moon?

9. When does Bill say he felt good as a child?

10. What does Brita think is special about the writer's face?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is Charlie's role in the novel? How would the novel change if he was not one of the characters? How does he wake Bill up to other matters in life? In what way is he the only character that could have done this?

Essay Topic 2

What does the Mao picture symbolize in the context of the story? How is Mao compared to the main character Bill?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss elements of the narrative structure: exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the book's themes?

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