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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. Where does Keith Landry use a disguise?

2. Who is Schenley?

3. Who does Keith Landry ask to bring him food?

4. What does Keith Landry do during the week after his meeting with Annie?

5. What does Keith Landry's visitor tell him?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Keith Landry and Annie's meeting in Chapter 20.

2. What does Keith Landry do after getting Annie's note?

3. What is the job Keith Landry is being recruited for, and who does he meet with?

4. What information does Keith Landry get about Annie's whereabouts?

5. How does Cliff Baxter react when he hears about the meeting?

6. What does Annie's note to Keith Landry say?

7. How does Cliff Baxter come to find Keith and Annie in Toledo?

8. What happens when Cliff Baxter finds Keith and Annie?

9. Describe the fight between Annie and Cliff Baxter in Chapter 19.

10. What is Keith Landry's response to Charlie Adair's and the President's offer?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the role of women in Spencerville? Are they property to be possessed, and contested between men, or are they people with agency and freedom of their own?

Essay Topic 2

Why doesn't Keith Landry urge Annie to remain married, and to work within the bond she had accepted, honoring the vows she once took? Put another way, what makes Annie's marriage to Cliff Baxter so contemptible that we wish, as readers, for it to end? Would there be a virtue to Annie remaining married?

Essay Topic 3

How American is Spencerville? What makes it American? What makes it something else? How does this novel embody Americanness?

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