View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the Oppenheimer triplets go to school?

2. Where was Mandy Bernstein going to college when she died?

3. When did Sally go to the American Folk Art Museum to see if her father had a girlfriend?

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. In Chapter 8, where did Harrison want to go for a summer program?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Salo meet Stella in 1993?

3. Why did Harrison quit eating chicken?

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

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

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

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

8. How did Salo react when he saw a painting at a gallery in Krefeld, Germany?

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

10. How did Johanna like to say she and Salo met, and how did really they meet?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Johanna is 47 when Phoebe is conceived. What relationship does Johanna have with Phoebe? Why does Johanna struggle more with motherhood with Phoebe than with the triplets?

Essay Topic 2

Johanna struggles with disappointment. How and why does Johanna struggle with disappointment? How does she cope with her disappointments?

Essay Topic 3

An allusion is a figure of speech that does not directly refer to a person, place, or thing. What are some allusions in The Latecomer? Why might it be difficult to decipher an allusion just by the context of a passage in a book? How do the allusions Korelitz uses help readers’ understanding of characters or concepts?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 909 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample