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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. Why isn't Bernard permitted to smoke cigarettes while in jail?
2. In the second "Interlude", what does the writer do to the typewriter he is using to write this novel?
3. How does the writer reply in Spanish to the Cuban children?
4. Why does Bernard say he is there the night before Leigh-Cheri's wedding?
5. In Chapter Seventy-Three, when Leigh-Cheri finally calms down, who does she ask for?
Short Essay Questions
1. What drastic measure does Leigh-Cheri do to show her support and love for Bernard while he is in prison?
2. What questions does the writer hope to answer as he finishes the book?
3. What did Bernard do to his attorney when he learned he was not going to have a trial and would only finish his original sentence?
4. What kind of ending did this novel have?
5. Why does the writer say his new typewriter will have to cope with letters, words and sentence structures that no other typewriter has ever had?
6. What is Bernard's reaction to Leigh-Cheri's self-imposed solitary confinement?
7. How do the authorities finally find Bernard to arrest him?
8. What mishaps do not endear Bernard to Queen Tilli?
9. Prior to being given the name of Bernard Mickey Wrangle, what was Bernard's name?
10. How does Bernard explain what is wrong with the way most people look at pyramids?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the purpose of the writer telling the readers about his new Remington SL3? Does it hold some type of symbolism for the story?
Essay Topic 2
Leigh-Cheri's bedtime story causes much ado when Bernard wants to know what happened to the golden ball. Is this a normal curiosity or a ploy used in the plot so that the writer can bring up the golden ball again later in the story? Where in the story is the golden ball misused as a metaphor for something else? Is the golden ball a metaphor or something in the story? If so, what?
Essay Topic 3
Why did Bernard want to have his day in court? What was he hoping to prove?
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