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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 did Richard buy his black woolen socks?
2. Where did Tom's parents drown?
3. What item of Dickie's clothing does Tom wear?
4. What city does Tom travel to?
5. When does Dickie say he will fly back home for a few days?
Short Essay Questions
1. In what way is Tom's new cap versatile?
2. What brings tears to Tom's eyes?
3. Why is it safe for Tom to tell the Greenleafs he studied in Princeton?
4. What has Tom been doing while alone in his hotel room?
5. What does Tom say to the Greenleafs in the postscript?
6. Who does Tom think is the man following him?
7. Who does Tom meet in Rome?
8. How does Tom kill Dickie?
9. What does Tom write in a letter from Dickie to Marge?
10. How does the morning Tom sets sail start off badly for him?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Examine Tom Ripley's's character across the whole series.
1) How does Highsmith develop Ripley's character across the whole series?
2) Does THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY add any new elements to Ripley's character? If so, what?
Essay Topic 2
Examine violence in the novel.
1) How do the characters in the novel view violence? Are there are character that would think twice before shooting or hitting someone?
2) Do the characters need to be violent to cope in the world that Highsmith portrays?
3) How do the students think the public reacted to the novel's violence when it was first published? How would the public react to such a book today?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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