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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 happens to the cats on the roof of the apartment building?
2. Why is the young boy in the building in Chapter 8?
3. In Chapter 13, what does the narrator spend three days doing?
4. What does Annie say the workers must do to make the patch on the floor near the old woman's apartment look old again?
5. How does the narrator describe his opinion of forensic procedure?
Short Essay Questions
1. What role does the narrator take in the homicide reenactment, and how does the reenactment make him feel?
2. What is wrong with the plants the Portuguese plant specialist brings with her to the new building?
3. In general, what does the narrator feel is a difficulty in getting the apartment building the way he wants it?
4. In Part III, what particular aspect of his own new apartment do the workers have trouble getting right?
5. What is one unanticipated problem with cooking the liver in Chapter 9?
6. How does the narrator go about getting details about the event he wants to reenact in Part IV?
7. What does the narrator request of the woman in the lobby, and why?
8. What task does the narrator often ask Naz to perform for him that is outside the remit of his original purpose?
9. What does the narrator ask the pianist to do in Part IV?
10. In Part IV, what kind of reenactment does the narrator ask for that is a departure from the other ones he has asked ror?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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 3
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.
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