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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. Why are people at the party angry at the narrator in Chapter 4?

2. What was difficult about the narrator's time in the hospital in Chapter 4?

3. Which company does Daubenay put the narrator in touch with when he wants to do his apartment project?

4. What does the narrator see in the bathroom at the party in Chapter 4?

5. What does the narrator do when he hears about the settlement?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator tell his friends about his settlement?

2. What does the narrator threaten Matthew Younger with in order to get Younger to do what he wants?

3. What does the narrator do when he hears about the amount of his settlement?

4. How do the narrator's feelings towards his friend Greg begin to change in Part II?

5. What group of employees does the narrator have a particularly difficult time working with?

6. Early in Part II, what project does the narrator become engrossed in?

7. Who does the narrator become fascinated with at the end of Part I, and why?

8. Why do people at David's party become really angry with the narrator?

9. Who does Daubenay set the narrator up with almost immediately following the settlement?

10. Who eventually helps connect the narrator with the person who runs his apartment project for him, and how does he do this?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why do you think the narrator chooses not to tell Greg and Catherine the true sum that he has received in compensation for his accident at the beginning of the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

Do you think McCarthy intends for the reader to feel any measure of sympathy for the narrator by the end of this novel? Why or why not? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

How does McCarthy communicate the feelings and reactions of people the protagonist comes into contact with, does business with, and makes requests of, to the protagonists increasingly outlandish and absurd demands? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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