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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. In what year does Fiona find out that her friend's newest gallery exhibition will open soon?
2. Fiona hires a private investigator in order to find whom?
3. Fiona tells her seatmate on the plane that she is planning to seek out which of her family members?
4. To whom had the object in Fiona's dream belonged in real life?
5. Who is the other person within Fiona's dream?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who serves as Terrence's power of attorney near the end of his life?
2. What major purchase does Yale consider making within the narrative and why?
3. What is the source of Yale's fear of being tricked?
4. What is the most encouraging aspect of Nora's art collection, from Yale's point of view?
5. What task does Arnaud say will "take a couple of days" (133)?
6. In what way had Fiona spend her twentieth birthday and how had it contrasted with her twenty-first birthday?
7. What place does Fiona name as being a location in which she will definitely not find Claire and why?
8. What realization does Yale make while in the bathroom with Julian at the party?
9. In what ways does Fiona forcibly direct her parents in regard to Nico's illness and death?
10. What information does Fiona report to Yale about her family's cleaning out of Nico's place and how does Yale react?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does the motif of dreams appear within The Great Believers and how does its treatment relate to the novel's depicted messages?
Essay Topic 2
What is the function of Nico's character within the novel? Discuss the characterization methods used by Makkai in depicting Nico and include in your discussion the reasons that Makkai portrays Nico and his loved ones’ reactions to Nico’s death in these particular ways.
Essay Topic 3
Look carefully at the passages of The Great Believers that describe the close relationship between Nico and his sister Fiona. What is Makkai’s purpose for discussing at length the nature of Fiona’s closeness to her brother Nico prior to his death?
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