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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Campion reveal will occur between Tommy Barban and Mr. McKisco?
(a) Arm wrestling
(b) A fencing match
(c) A chess match
(d) A duel

2. What does Dick give to Rosemary?
(a) Directions to Paris
(b) Compliments
(c) Directions to her hotel
(d) Pearls

3. What does the answer to #31 take with him to the event?
(a) Aspirin
(b) A movie camera
(c) A jacket
(d) A doctor

4. Which character leaves for war the next day?
(a) Dick Diver
(b) Tommy Barban
(c) Earl Brady
(d) Campion

5. What name does Dick sign to a note for Maria?
(a) Dickeroo
(b) Dickster
(c) Dickie
(d) Dicole

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the pathologist that Dick visits in Zurich?

2. What does Dick realize about his feelings for Rosemary?

3. What number does Rosemary think is the limit for a good party?

4. What is the name of the hotel in the book's opening passage?

5. What does Rosemary do at the Newfoundland memorial?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Rosemary's response when Dick will not comply with her request to make love?

2. What does Fitzgerald mean when he says this about Dick: "he opened the gate to his amusing world. So long as they subscribed to it completely, their happiness was his preoccupation, but at the first flicker of doubt as to its all-inclusiveness he evaporated before their eyes, leaving little communicable memory of what he had said or done."

3. What differences does Rosemary note in her spending habits and Nicole's?

4. How does Rosemary equate Nicole to her mother?

5. How is Dick able to ascertain that Nicole is upset about his continuing attention toward Rosemary?

6. How can Rosemary tell that the Divers and their friends are wealthy?

7. What psychological protective mechanisms are put in place for Nicole?

8. What lesson does Rosemary learn when Dick again rebuffs her advances?

9. Describe the setting for the opening of the novel.

10. How does Rosemary perceive the Divers during dinner?

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