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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 engraved item of Tinker's does Katey find within her pocket after Tinker drops her off at home with Eve?
2. At the start of Chapter 6, Katey's life is NOT said to include which of the following characteristics?
3. In what type of brown car does Eve pick up Katey in Chapter 9?
4. What item does Eve use to distract the movie theater usher so that she, Katey, and Tinker can sneak into the theater?
5. Eve tells Katey that she wants to be which director?
Short Essay Questions
1. In what way does Katey demonstrate loyalty during her third meeting with Anne, which occurs within a hotel?
2. What major development occurs at the very end of Chapter 11, after Katey sees her father and uncle?
3. Describe the moment when Eve and Katey encounter Tinker.
4. What is the setting of the novel's Preface?
5. 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).
6. For what reason do Katey and Eve have to "start improvising" (17) on New Year's Eve?
7. What is the symbolism inherent in the character of Nathaniel Parrish, as he is featured within Chapter 12?
8. In what way does the epigraph of Rules of Civility depict the theme of class difference?
9. For what purpose does Towles include an allusion to Gertrude Stein within Chapter 9?
10. What is Katey's reaction when she receives the correspondence from Eve in Palm Beach?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
Sensory details are used frequently by the author in order to create vivid pictures of life in New York City in the 1930s. Choose three scenes in which sensory details are heavily used and discuss how the sensory details used by the author serve the author’s creation of a vivid setting for the novel.
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