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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 Aislyn’s father do for a living?

2. How does Manny and Bel’s savior in Inwood Hill Park defeat the ick?

3. Where is Manny when the novel begins?

4. What does Manny not want to use on the cabbie?

5. What does Sao Paulo say when he makes his international call after going to Inwood Hill Park?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Manny treat the woman with the camera, once she is no longer the Woman in White, and what does it reveal about him?

2. How does Manny manage to get to FDR Drive?

3. What can Manny tell about himself from looking in the Penn Station bathroom mirror?

4. What does the woman in the park with the camera accuse Manny and Bel of?

5. What is Aislyn Houlihan doing at the Staten Island Ferry?

6. What happens when Manny first encounters his roommate, Bel?

7. In Inwood Hill Park, how does Manny manage to defend himself and Bel from the white wriggling ooze?

8. Though Aislyn thinks of her as a crazy person, why does she continue to stay with the Woman in White until she gets on the bus?

9. How does Manny manage to defeat the Ick on FDR Drive?

10. Describe the relationship between the narrator and Sao Paulo.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What role does art play in the novel? What point does the author seem to be making by including this motif?

Essay Topic 2

In an essay, explore how the characters respond to their competing responsibilities to the city and to others in their lives.

Essay Topic 3

Each of the avatars is from a different cultural/ racial background, and there are tense conflicts with white power groups. Write an essay in which you discuss the role race plays in the novel.

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