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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. As Gilbert explains to Tony and Danny what happened to Frank, Danny keeps saying
2. The item Lionel steals from the home of The Clients is
3. The personal items Frank leaves in the back seat of the car so that they are not stolen in the hospital are
4. Frank Minna begins picking the boys up
5. When Tony tells Lionel to go explain to Julia, it suggests
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Frank's conversation in the car with his captors.
2. Which of Lionel's symtoms keeps repeating itself on the night of the stakeout?
3. Describe Tony's character.
4. What is inferred in the sentence: "We were all four of us an arrangement around a missing centerpiece, as incoherent as a verbless sentence.
5. Frank's nickname for Lionel, Freakshow, suggests what?
6. What are Frank's instruction over the wire when the conversation in the Zendo ends?
7. What characteristic does Lionel give Frank credit for developing in himself?
8. What is implied by the sentence: In Tourette dreams you shed your tics or your tics shed you and you go with them, astonished to leave yourself behind).
9. Describe Lionel's ritual as he eats his sandwich after trying to get Gilbert out of jail.
10. What does Lionel mean when he says that a person with Tourette's can be the Invisible Man?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
1) Consider the contrast between the author's use of the calm setting of the Zendo and Lionel's maniacal personality. 2) Consider the contrast between the Fujisaki Corporation and Gerard's personality, or 3) Consider the contrast between life at the orphanage with working for Frank Minna. Then write an essay in which you explore what the author achieves through such striking contrasts using examples to support your argument.
Essay Topic 2
Consider Frank's statement to Lionel that there only a couple of Essrogs in the phone book. 1) Write an essay in which you explore the purpose of Frank's statement, 2) Write an essay in which you discuss Lionel's reaction and motivation with respect to Frank's statement and 3) Write an essay in which you consider the role of Frank's statement in the progression of the plot.
Essay Topic 3
Because of Lionel's Tourette's Syndrome, the author's use of imagery is particularly vibrant. 1) Write an essay discussing the importance of the gustatory imagery to Lionel's character, or 2) Write an essay discussing the author's use of auditory imagery with respect to Lionel's character, or 3) Write and essay discussing the importance of tactile imagery to Lionel's character.
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