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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 Carriscant tell Sieverance?

2. Where do Carriscant and Kay go to inquire about the magazine photograph?

3. What does Carriscant travel to Luneta?

4. What is Carriscant's request to Annaliese's request?

5. Why is Carriscant able to visit Delphine regularly?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who calls in Carriscant to examine his ill wife?

2. Where is Seiverance going and what does he do in preparation?

3. What details about her life does Delphine tell Carriscant?

4. What happens to Carriscant before he can flee the country?

5. Why does Delphine take up painting and how does that enable her affair with Carriscant?

6. How does Annaliese become pregnant with Kay?

7. What happens when Carriscant meets Delphine and why does she reject him?

8. How does Carriscant manage to see Delphine alone for a few minutes?

9. What does Carriscant say Delphine admits and what is Kay's reaction?

10. What does Cruz show Carriscant in Cruz's operating room and what does Carriscant think of what he is seeing?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the following:

1. Who is/are the protagonists of the story and why?

2. Who is/are the antagonists of the story and why?

3. Which 3 secondary characters have the greatest impact on the plot?

4. Are any of the characters dispensable and which ones? Why or why not?

5. Do you think this is a character-driven plot or an action-driven plot? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

Oftentimes, a book has more of a character-driven plot rather than action driven, and oftentimes the other way. Some books seem to balance the two. Discuss the following:

1. What do you think it means to say that a plot is character driven? Action driven?

2. How do you think a plot differs if it is character driven versus action driven?

3. Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why?

4. Do you think it is possible to have a plot where action and character development share equal time? Why or why not.

5. What type of plot do you think The Blue Afternoon is? Explain your response.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the following:

1. What is a plot? What are the most important elements of a plot and their definition? Do all novels have a plot? Why or why not?

2. Write a brief synopsis of the plot of The Blue Afternoon, identifying where the various elements of the plot occur (Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution or denouement). Do you find it difficult to identify the plot? Why or why not? What about the various elements of the plot?

3. Identify the major sub-plots and their elements in The Blue Afternoon. (The subplots may not contain every element of a major plot). Do the sub-plots add to the main plot? Why or why not. Are the sub-plots interesting in and of themselves? Why or why not?

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