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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. When did Magda Brunn die?

2. At the end of Part 2, Chapter 9, what did Hazel see Jane doing?

3. How many bathrooms did Albert Caldwell have in his house?

4. Where did Erwin have an apartment before he met Sarah?

5. In Part 1, Chapter 2, how much did Tanawat Kongkatitum charge for a bowl of shisha and hash?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Jane like when Sarah first met her?

2. What did Vikram Patel do for a living?

3. When was the novel The Blizzard Party published, and how was it received?

4. What did guests to the Vornados' party have to endure to get to the party?

5. What did Sarah Saltwater consider about the tendency of people to speak the most on subjects they knew the least about?

6. What analogy is used to describe the trouble Albert had remembering things in Part 1, Chapter 3?

7. What did Erwin cook the night of the blizzard party, and what problem did he encounter?

8. When Hazel woke at the Montauk house, what did she see when she looked outside?

9. Why was Erwin not able to throw the burned fish down to the incinerator?

10. What did Albert do at the end of Part 1, Chapter 3?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in the book? Why does it sometimes seem to be written from a third-person point of view? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and people?

Essay Topic 2

Albert is 74 in most of the novel. How does old age affect Albert? Why does he think he is “lord of a crumbling manor” (181) because of old age?

Essay Topic 3

Artistic license is the way that an author creates, art, music, or writing based upon his interpretation of life. How does the author use artistic license to make the novel seem like the events actually happened and the characters are real people?

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