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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. The location to which Katey and Tinker hike has a view of what water feature?

2. What does Katey do with the flapper jacket?

3. What color does Tinker turn when he sees Katey at a nearby table at the restaurant?

4. As Katey climbs out of the car at the end of Chapter 13, what action does Dicky take?

5. What is Bitsy's last name?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the advice Bitsy gives Kate about Wallace dovetail with the engraving on Tinker's lighter?

2. The origin of what important relationship of Katey's is revealed within Chapter 16 when Katey attends a party at Whileaway?

3. In what way is the theme of deception featured within Hank's comments to Katey about his brother Tinker?

4. Describe the character of Wallace, with whom Katey reconnects in Chapter 13.

5. In what way does the theme of hypocrisy enter the narrative in relation to Katey?

6. From whose point of view is the section of the text entitled September 30 presented and who else is involved in the scene?

7. In what way does the relationship between Katey and Tinker change during their trip to the Adirondacks?

8. What major plot revelation is made during Chapter 19, entitled The Road to Kent?

9. In what way does Towles instill his description of Eve's fate with a tone of approval?

10. What qualities are revealed about Katey's character in her dealings with Pembroke Publishing?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

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

Explicate the theme of appearance versus reality within Amor Towles's novel Rules of Civility. What is the author's message regarding the theme and how do you know?

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