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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. Which of the following is a reason Aaron notes the video quality of the movie he watches at Thomas’s home is poor?
2. Which of the following does Thomas note is the cost of a morning movie ticket?
3. Which of the following does Aaron note is present in Thomas’s room when first he visits it?
4. With whom of the following does Aaron note Eric is playing cards?
5. Which of the following is the listed phone number for the Leteo Institute?
Short Essay Questions
1. What reasons does Aaron note for being reluctant to discuss his father’s suicide, even as he first discusses the matter with Thomas?
2. What job duties does Aaron note performing the morning after he and Genevieve first have sex?
3. What hopes for the reader does Thomas express in her introduction to the novel?
4. For what does Aaron initially mistake the Leteo Institute’s offerings?
5. What reasons does Aaron give for calling Brendan his “sort of best friend” (5)?
6. Why does Aaron posit Leteo attracts as much resistance as it does?
7. How does Aaron regard Thomas’s progress through career ideas?
8. What admonishment does Elsie give Thomas as she allows Aaron to go to his home to watch a movie?
9. What does Aaron anticipate on Genevieve’s return from New Orleans?
10. How does Aaron contrast Genevieve’s comfort and his friends’ in the wake of his father’s death?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Attention is paid to Genevieve’s artwork, much of which is described as following surrealist tropes. What significance attaches to Genevieve’s working in that genre, and how does the text indicate that significance?
Essay Topic 2
What effect does the unnumbered and unnamed section at the beginning of Here Today, Gone Tomorrow, have on the reader? How is the effect achieved?
Essay Topic 3
At one point, Aaron asks Thomas “You do know we aren’t in Queens, right?” (68). What stereotypes are being referenced by the question, what does the invocation of those stereotypes indicate about the characters concerned, and how does it do so?
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