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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. At what time do Katie and Eve arrive back home the night they meet Tinker?
2. The epigraph of the novel Rules of Civility is taken from what text?
3. In what way does Katey receive an invitation upstairs when she follows Anne into a building?
4. Eve is wearing what type of expensive jewelry on the night of the party in Chapter 7?
5. Which member of Eve's family had aided her in getting a job with Pembroke Press?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens to bring Katey into contact with Anne for the third time within the narrative?
2. Discuss an example when Towles uses a simile within the novel's narrative and discuss its effects.
3. Describe the narrator and protagonist, as she is presented within Chapter 1.
4. In what way is the plight of the working woman depicted within the character of Charlotte in Chapter 3?
5. Describe the narrator's character and situation within 1938.
6. In what way does the theme of deception enter the narrative within Katey's scenes with Charlotte in Chapter 7?
7. Discuss the significance of the as-yet-unnamed narrator's comment that "It happens to all of us. It's just a question of how many stops it takes" (5).
8. What is the symbolism inherent in the character of Nathaniel Parrish, as he is featured within Chapter 12?
9. For what reason do Katey and Eve have to "start improvising" (17) on New Year's Eve?
10. What is the setting of the novel's Preface?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write a critical essay about Amor Towles's novel Rules of Civility while using the critical power theory lens of Marxist theory. Use textual evidence to back up your strong, specific claim regarding the novel's treatment of issues such as socioeconomic status, hierarchies, wealth, class, or any other issues related to Marxist theory that can be found in the novel.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the reasons why Amor Towles's novel Rules of Civility tells the story from Katey's first-person point of view. What elements of the novel's themes lend themselves to this choice and what are Towles's intended effects on the reader?
Essay Topic 3
William Faulkner once famously claimed that the most important literature deals with the subject of the human heart in conflict with itself. Explain how the theme of Human versus Self is demonstrated within Amor Towles's novel Rules of Civility. Create a decisive, arguable claim and prove it with quotes from the novel.
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