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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 day of the week is it when Allan escapes the nursing home?
2. What is the Boss's real name in the narrative?
3. What is Bolt's real name revealed to be in Chapter 10?
4. In the beginning of Chapter 10, Bucket has been sitting outside of a supermarket in what town for four days?
5. On what date does Chapter 10 begin?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is illustrated through Allan's encounter with Father Ferguson in Chapter 13?
2. What happens when Allan arrives in the U.S. in Chapter 9?
3. What character is introduced at a press meeting in Chapter 5? How is the media depicted?
4. What is ironic about Allan's meeting with world leaders throughout the narrative?
5. How are the major conflicts in Chapter 8 resolved?
6. For whom is Allan working in Chapter 11? Why does he change sides?
7. How does the narrator describe Bolt's character?
8. How does Allan meet General Franco in Chapter 7? How does this meeting benefit Allan?
9. What leads to the conflict between the Beauty and the other characters in Chapter 8?
10. How do the themes of compassion and generosity apply in Chapter 12?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe and discuss some of the absurdist, surrealist, and black comedy aspects in The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared. How do these larger-than-life twists work as literature, and what type of comedy are they utilizing to draw in the reader? How does the author employ irony to comedic affect in the novel?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss Allan's relationship with President Harry Truman. Where do Allan and Truman meet? What mission does Truman solicit Allan to embark on? How does Allan perform in this mission?
Essay Topic 3
Why is Allan held prisoner by the Shah of Iran in 1947? Whom does Allan befriend during his captivity in Iran? How does Allan eventually escape? Where does he go next?
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