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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. What is Marge's surname?

2. What kind of drink is Tom drinking with Marge and the Franchetti brothers?

3. What country is Peter Smith-Kingsley from?

4. What does McCarron want to know?

5. What kind of money in Freddie's wallet does Tom burn?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reason does Tom give for Dickie being despondent?

2. How does Tom raise the police's suspicions?

3. What does the countess tell Tom in Chapter 29?

4. How does Tom exaggerate the Tom Ripley persona?

5. How does Mr. Greeleaf react when Marge tells him about Dickie's rings?

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

7. What do the newspapers say about Dickie?

8. Why do the police want to know where Tom Ripley is ?

9. How does Tom try to hide that Freddie is dead when he takes him outside?

10. What does Tom say to Mr. Greeenleaf in his letter in June?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

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?

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