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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 is the setting of the epigraph of Rules of Civility?
2. In what language are Charlotte and her grandmother speaking to each other as Katey approaches?
3. What is the last name of the young woman named Fran who lives in the same boardinghouse as Katey?
4. In what way does Katey change her hair within Chapter 11?
5. While in the company of Anne, Katey notices that Anne is not wearing what item of clothing?
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. What major development occurs at the very end of Chapter 11, after Katey sees her father and uncle?
4. In what way does the epigraph of Rules of Civility depict the theme of class difference?
5. In what way is the theme of unfulfilled wishes depicted at some point within Chapters 1 through 5?
6. In what way does Katey demonstrate loyalty during her third meeting with Anne, which occurs within a hotel?
7. Describe the correspondence Katey receives from Eve during Eve's and Tinker's trip to Palm Beach.
8. Describe the narrator and protagonist, as she is presented within Chapter 1.
9. For what purpose does Towles include an allusion to Gertrude Stein within Chapter 9?
10. 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).
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Could Amor Towles's novel Rules of Civility be classified as a coming-of-age story? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
Analyze Amor Towles's novel Rules of Civility from an Existential perspective. What elements of life does it suggest hold the most meaning and why?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss how and why the author instills three different humanist messages into the narrative of Amor Towles's novel Rules of Civility.
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