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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. Who does the narrator see talking to the man in the courtyard in Part III?

2. Who has to be hired to take care of the first major problem in the apartment project in Chapter 9?

3. What do both the narrator and Naz say they always used to like?

4. What does the doctor tell Naz needs to stop for the narrator's health to improve?

5. Who is the special effects person Frank brings in to work on the second reenactment?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator not like, and fail to consider, about the way the sun is hitting the floor in his apartment building?

2. What is one unanticipated problem with cooking the liver in Chapter 9?

3. What does the narrator request of the woman in the lobby, and why?

4. What does the doctor who examines the narrator conclude about the narrator in Part IV?

5. What task does the narrator often ask Naz to perform for him that is outside the remit of his original purpose?

6. How does the narrator go about getting details about the event he wants to reenact in Part IV?

7. What role does the narrator take in the homicide reenactment, and how does the reenactment make him feel?

8. In Part IV, what event does the narrator become obsessed with reenacting?

9. What does the narrator do with Roger's models of the various scenes that interest him?

10. In Part III, what particular aspect of his own new apartment do the workers have trouble getting right?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the protagonist use the models he has made for him of the different places he fixates upon for his reenactments? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

How does the protagonist's inability and complete refusal to take Matthew Younger's advice about his investments shape the plot and outcome of this novel? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

What effect does the 8 million pound settlement end up having, at the end of the novel, on the protagonist's life? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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