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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 Chapter 12, what was Sally's room number at her dorm?

2. Which of the Roarke students found Eli's book in the school librarry?

3. What color hair does the woman have who is volunteering in the Shaker exhibit in Chapter 14?

4. How long after Sally and Rochelle returned to campus in Chapter 14, did Rochelle have to go home for a couple of days?

5. Where did Harrison and his parents meet the bus that was to take him to college in Chapter 11?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Johanna went to a bookstore in Chapter 8, who did she see?

2. How did Sally learn that her father was having an affair?

3. In Chapter 10, who was Lewyn's roommate?

4. Where was Harrison planning to go to college after Roarke?

5. In Chapter 8, how was Johanna feeling about the triplets leaving home, and what did she decide to do?

6. In Chapter 14, what was the only thing that Sally and her brothers had in common?

7. What happened to Mandy Bernstein?

8. Why did Salo move his painting to a warehouse?

9. How did Sally and Lewyn get accepted to attend Cornell?

10. What did it take for Salo and Johanna to have the triplets?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sally and Lewyn were often a team against Harrison. Why were they often a team against Harrison? How would you describe their relationship and why they are not close?

Essay Topic 2

Artistic license is the way that an author creates, art, music, or writing based upon her interpretation of life. How does Korelitz use artistic license to create the realistic background of The Latecomer?

Essay Topic 3

Eli poses as a Black man. What advantages were there for Eli appearing to be a Black man? What did he gain from the fiction? What is revealed about white-to-nonwhite ethnic self-reassignment and the benefits through Eli’s deception?

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