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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 does Carrie Rose ask Clive Lawson to do to the police?

2. How does Jane injure one of her attackers?

3. What does Damian Rose warn Brooks Campbell not to do?

4. To what movie's characters does Damian Rose compare Basil?

5. What road does Dred ambush the Grasshopper on?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Carrie tell Clive Lawson that his job is?

2. Does Duane Nicholson know he's being followed when he leaves the Forenza residence?

3. What deal does Peter make with the priest at the funeral?

4. Describe Jane when Peter goes to the hospital to see her.

5. Why do Peter MacDonald and Meral Johnson go to Paris?

6. Describe how Carrie sees herself when she looks into her mirror before leaving the island.

7. How does Meral feel toward Peter?

8. How are the deaths of Carol Hill and Jane similar?

9. Describe the scene outside the church where Jane Cooke's funeral is held.

10. What happens to Damian when he calls the U.S. embassy to tell Brooks Campbell about Dred's final act of violence?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the necessity for violence in the novel. At the end of the novel, Hill thinks that it "never ends." Is violence in the novel an unending cycle that is impossible to escape? The novel indicates that Damian comes from a violent household. Does violence beget violence, in the world just as in individual families? When is violence right or wrong in the novel? Is it necessary to kill Damian Rose at the end of the book? Is it necessary or just to hang the three murderers at the beginning of the book? Is it necessary for Peter to kill Harold Hill?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss power in the novel. The Mafia, the U.S. government, the Roses, and Colonel Dred all want power, and all try to manipulate others for their own means. How do these factions try to gain power, and why? Who ultimately controls the power in the novel? How do the characters maintain power?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Damian Rose's character.

1) How does Damian Rose see himself? What motivates him to be a criminal?

2) How does Carrie Rose see Damian? How is her view of his character different than Damian's view?

3) What is an objective view of Damian Rose's character?

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