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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. Who was sentenced for time served for the Ponzi scheme?

2. Who was on CNN the night Leon learned his savings were gone?

3. What time did Joelle fed the last page into her paper shredder in Chapter 10?

4. At the beginning of Chapter 12, what color did Alkaitis think he saw?

5. How long did Vincent work on the Neptune Cumberland?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Oskar do in Chapter 11, when he left the Gradia Building and reporters tried to question him?

2. What did Oskar realize about the investors in Chapter 11?

3. In Chapter 12, why did Alkaitis ask Julie Freeman to look up what happened to Olivia Collins, and what did he learn?

4. Why did Walter nearly faint when he learned about Alkaitis's arrest?

5. At the end of Chapter 15, who did Paul see?

6. At a party someone asked Simone if she was Alkaitis's secretary or receptionist; what does she learn when she looks up those words about her role?

7. What did Walter do after the hotel was shut down?

8. What did Leon mean when he said that he and his wife were citizens of a shadow country?

9. What did the people on the 18th floor of the Gradia Building do?

10. Why memory did Jonathan have of his brother Lucas at the end of Chapter 12?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When Alkaitis was in prison, he like to imagine another life—a counterlife. Why did Alkaitis imagine other times and places when he was in prison? Why did he call these daydreams a counterlife? How did the counterlife help him cope?

Essay Topic 2

Vincent and Jonathan meet at the Hotel Caiette. What did chance have to do with their meeting? How did other characters meet by chance? What does the author imply about fate through these chance meetings?

Essay Topic 3

Jonathan and his associates were involved in the Ponzi scheme. How did the associates get involved? What motivated them to participate in the scheme? Did they have different motivations for being involved?

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