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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 Dick realize after talking to Clay Collis about Rosemary?
(a) Rosemary is in love with Clay.
(b) Rosemary is in love with Dick.
(c) Dick is in love with Rosemary.
(d) Clay is in love with Rosemary.

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

3. Who does Rosemary promise to stay with at the party?
(a) Earl Brady
(b) Dick and Nicole
(c) Mr. and Mrs. North
(d) Campion

4. What is the name of the hotel in the book's opening passage?
(a) The Ritz Carlton
(b) The Four Seasons
(c) The Meridien Hotel
(d) Gausse's Hotel des Estrangers

5. How old was Nicole when her mother died?
(a) 21
(b) 16
(c) 11
(d) 18

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Rosemary overhear declaring their love and passion for each other?

2. Who shows up at the train station to bid Abe goodbye?

3. What is the date of the opening passage?

4. What does Abe say is the best thing to have?

5. What does Campion reveal will occur between Tommy Barban and Mr. McKisco?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dick reveal about his relationship with Nicole to Dr. Franz Gregorovius?

2. Why does Rosemary not have fun at the party after she analyzes the evening?

3. 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."

4. What do Rosemary's thoughts reveal about how she was raised by her mother?

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

6. Why does Rosemary's view of the Mediterranean change after she meets with film director Earl Brady?

7. Explain the technique of flashback used in Chapter 26.

8. How does Rosemary perceive the Divers during dinner?

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

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

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