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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. Who interrupts Anne and Guy and when she questions if he wants to be with her?

2. What does Howland suggest Gerrad does at the end of chapter 43?

3. What does Bruno admit to Guy he has never felt?

4. What does Gerard say he has wandered into when Bruno enters his office?

5. What is the first thing that Guy designs for Horton, Horton and Keese?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Gerard catch Guy out?

2. Why does Guy panic about Bruno in this section?

3. How does Guy stop himself from feeling guilty about murdering Samuel Bruno?

4. Why doesn't Anne like Gerard?

5. What does Gerard say Bruno's father thought about him?

6. Why doesn't Bruno like Gerard?

7. How is the alcohol beginning to affect Bruno?

8. What did Guys mother tell him about good and evil?

9. Why does Anne think Guy may have seen Bruno in March?

10. What does Guy think of legal procedure?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Look at the structure of "Strangers on a Train".

How does the author use character and dialogue to drive the narrative?

Discuss elements of the narrative structure: exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the book's themes?

Essay Topic 2

What role does Bruno's mother play in "Strangers on a Train"? How would the book change if she was not part of it? What effect does her presence in the story have on the other character?

Essay Topic 3

Apart from the main character, examine the way the author uses the other characters in the book. When does she introduce them and take them away from the story? How do they add to the narrative and structure? What affect does they have on the story?

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