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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. What does the narrator ask Naz to do at the very end of Part III?

2. In Chapter 13, what does the narrator spend three days doing?

3. What does the narrator ask the concierge to do differently in Chapter 13?

4. Who makes models of buildings for the narrator?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is wrong with the plants the Portuguese plant specialist brings with her to the new building?

6. In Part III, who does the narrator begin to value more on his team and why?

7. In Part IV, what kind of reenactment does the narrator ask for that is a departure from the other ones he has asked ror?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How much of the narrator's increasingly bizarre and dangerous demands do you think McCarthy intends the reader to attribute to the aftermath of the narrator's original accident? How much weight do you think McCarthy invites the reader to assign to the narrator's personality regarding his actions? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

Why do you think McCarthy chose the title Remainder for this book? What do you think McCarthy intends the title to mean to the reader? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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