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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 request does Ellen Cherry make of Spike and Abu?
2. What resolve does Ellen Cherry make with regard to her art as a result of Boomer's successful art show?
3. What does Boomer Petway use to trick Ellen Cherry Charles into marrying him?
4. Where is the first place Ellen Cherry goes after she leaves art school?
5. What is the fifth veil?
Short Essay Questions
1. Robbins writes, "Those people who recognize that imagination is reality's master, we call 'sages', and those who act upon it, we call 'artists.'" What do you think he means by this and why is the distinction important?
2. What are some ways you can interpret Boomer's spy coat sculpture in which he declares his love for Ellen Cherry in a 500 different encoded messages?
3. Describe the sculpture that Boomer is bringing to Jerusalem to reassemble.
4. Describe why Boomer says he feels guilty about his success as an artist.
5. What do we learn about Patsy, Ellen Cherry's mother in the section called "The First Veil"?
6. Describe Ellen Cherry's eye game.
7. Can 'o Beans says that "imprecise speech is one of the major causes of mental illness in human beings." What do you think is meant by this?
8. Patsy suspects Buddy of seeking fame and fortune through his preaching. Does this seem likely to you, based on what you know so far about Buddy?
9. What are the the origins of Spike Cohen's foot fetish?
10. Explain the symbolism of the I & I.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare the contrast the two radically different political positions represented by Spike and Abu on the one hand and Buddy on the other. What do they each think about the conflict in the middle east? How do their ideas, both about it's background and the best possible resolution to the conflict, differ? Consider the problem or issue of interpretation in history.
Essay Topic 2
Explore the significance of Isaac and Ishmael's. Describe the symbolism of the restaurant as well as it's political implications. The narrator talks a lot about this in the fourth veil, when the restaurant is introduced. Include this information, but don't limit your discussion to it. You may also want to consider the significance of Spike and Abu's backgrounds and characters.
Essay Topic 3
Explore the significance of the title. Ellen Cherry comments that Salome has skinny legs for a belly dancer. Why do you think that Robbins chose this as the defining moment of the novel?
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