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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 is Tom sailing to?

2. What is the name of Herbert Greenleaf's son?

3. What does Tom eat for his first course at the restaurant?

4. What does Tom hit Freddie with?

5. What is Dickie's hobby?

Short Essay Questions

1. What lie does Tom tell Mr. Greenleaf?

2. How does Dickie react when Tom tells him his father sent him to bring Dickie home?

3. What has Tom been doing while alone in his hotel room?

4. Why does Tom like the relationship he has with Cleo?

5. What does Marge say in her letter to Dickie, dated January 4?

6. Why is Tom frightened of water?

7. Why does Tom have a long conversation with a painter called Carlino?

8. How does Dickie insult Tom in Chapter 12?

9. Why is it safe for Tom to tell the Greenleafs he studied in Princeton?

10. Why does Carlo want two people to ride to Paris in a coffin?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How could Tom get rid of his loneliness? How does killing Dickie and Freddie make Tom even lonelier? How much has Tom's loneliness affected his mindset?

Essay Topic 2

THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY is part of the crime genre.

1) What are the conventions of the genre in terms of character, language and plot?

2) In what way did the Ripley series help to set the template for similar novels? Do modern novels still use the ideas Highsmith used in the the Ripley books?

Essay Topic 3

Why does Tom hate himself? How much is this self-hatred responsible for Tom's actions so far in the book?

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