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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 does Dick host that evening?
2. What is the tradition between Dick and Nicole?
3. What transpires between Dick and the answer to #80?
4. What is the red-haired girl holding on the train?
5. What does Rosemary discover when she returns to her room?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain the discrimination incident in Chapter 23.
2. How does Abe's drinking allow him to insult Nicole at the train station?
3. What differences does Rosemary note in her spending habits and Nicole's?
4. How does the duel turn into an entertainment event?
5. How is Dick able to ascertain that Nicole is upset about his continuing attention toward Rosemary?
6. 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."
7. Explain the technique of flashback used in Chapter 26.
8. What does Dick reveal about his relationship with Nicole to Dr. Franz Gregorovius?
9. How can you tell that Dick's mind is addled by Rosemary?
10. Why does Rosemary's view of the Mediterranean change after she meets with film director Earl Brady?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the role of Collis Clay in the novel? Why does he seem to follow Rosemary around even though she is not interested in him? Does Collis represent a naivete which Rosemary has lost? Explain.
Essay Topic 2
Dick calls the love between him and Nicole an "active" love. What does he mean by that? What does he hope Rosemary will understand by the description? What is so complicated about the love between Dick and Nicole? Is it different from the love between most married couples? Explain.
Essay Topic 3
Describe Rosemary's life as a young actress. Why is she so world-weary at such a young age? How is it that she can size up Earl Brady's intentions so quickly? What does Rosemary mean when she says that her view of the Mediterranean had changed since she now knows there is a film studio there?
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