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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 does Marge phone at 8.30 am?

2. Who does Tom receive a letter from when he arrives in Athens?

3. What did Tom imagine he would have when he became Dickie?

4. What does everyone at the party want to discuss?

5. Who does Tom identify himself as at the police station?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does it frighten Tom that he has to go to Naples to verify Tom's signature in person?

2. Why does Tom think Marge is so friendly to Mr. Greenleaf?

3. What does Tom read in the newspapers in Chapter 30?

4. What lies does Tom tell McCarron?

5. Why does Tom hate being himself?

6. Why can Tom not tell Marge what he really thinks about the party?

7. How does Tom exaggerate the Tom Ripley persona?

8. What did a man see outside of Dickie's apartment?

9. How do the police think Freddie was murdered?

10. What does Mr. Greenleaf write in his letter to Tom?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Highsmith writes the THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY in the third person. Why do you think Highsmith chose to write the story in the third person? How do you think the meaning of the story would have changed if Highsmith wrote it in the first person?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Examine the difference between American and European culture in terms of the following:

1) Religion.

2) Attitudes towards death.

3) Popular culture.

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