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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Vanessa and Taylor go to speak after Vanessa visits Taylor at her office?
(a) A coffee shop.
(b) A pizza place.
(c) A small bistro.
(d) A local park.

2. As Vanessa heads into her senior year of college, with whom does she begin living?
(a) Bea.
(b) Becky.
(c) Brielle.
(d) Bridget.

3. What Nabokov novel does Vanessa discuss with Plough, intriguing him?
(a) Despair.
(b) Pale Fire.
(c) Laughter in the Dark.
(d) Pnin.

4. What is the first name of Professor Plough?
(a) Henry.
(b) Hackney.
(c) Harvey.
(d) Harry.

5. According to Vanessa on page 322, what does she now lack that teenage Vanessa once had?
(a) Spirit.
(b) Fear.
(c) Courage.
(d) Apathy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of women populate the literature in Plough’s seminar class, as explained on page 321?

2. According to Vanessa on page 270, she has become a voracious consumer of what type of stories?

3. How does Vanessa describe her relationship with Strane on page 192?

4. What does Strane want regarding Vanessa’s blog, as he explains on page 341?

5. How does Vanessa describe her living situation with her roommate on page 268?

Short Essay Questions

1. What package does Vanessa receive in the mail following Strane’s death? What effect does this package have on her?

2. What is Vanessa’s opinion of her teenage self? How does Ruby see a teenage Vanessa, as she explains on page 265?

3. How does Vanessa feel regarding her impending graduation from college? What does Strane say about it on page 270?

4. What does Vanessa learn from Jenny in the spring of 2002?

5. What does Vanessa discover while working in the urology department of her father’s hospital?

6. Why does Vanessa feel a need to see Strane, as explained on page 267? What does she get from it? How is this adoration function like a drug?

7. How does Strane describe the student accusing him of assault on page 306?

8. How does Strane react to his encounter with Plough? How does Vanessa react to it?

9. How does the literature in Vanessa’s gothic seminar parallel her real life?

10. Why does Vanessa judge Henry Plough to be untrustworthy?

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