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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 is Amy's job?

2. What did Lou's father do for a living?

3. What does Lou say there is no good crying over?

4. What does Lou take out of the woman's drawer?

5. What does Lou say the bums always size him up for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Rothman tell Lou he is worried about?

2. Why is Lou uncomfortable with Bob and Hendricks?

3. What does Lou do to his car before he goes to murder Joyce?

4. How does Lou implicate Chester as the murderer?

5. How does Lou decide to avenge Chester?

6. Why does Lou say he doesn't need a weapon?

7. Why is Bob so upset when he arrives back at the hotel?

8. Why is Bob angry at Hendricks in Chapter 8?

9. How does Chester react to Elmer's death?

10. Why does Lou say he agrees to marry Amy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In what does Lou hide his feelings even in the first person narration? How does this suggest that Lou is perhaps not the cold person he makes him out to be?

Essay Topic 2

How do the other characters manage to catch out Lou? What leads to Lou's downfall? Is there a suggestion Lou wants to be caught?

Essay Topic 3

In what does Lou suggest his upbringing is partly responsible for his sickness? What evidence is the book that this may just be an excuse?

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