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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 time are the teenagers and their parents interviewed after Schneider's death?

2. In Chapter 19, how old is the kid who is responsible for throwing the firecrackers onto the bonfire?

3. What does Roslyn do for a living?

4. In Chapter 10, how many monkeys has Reine-Marie found so far in sorting through a deceased elderly woman's things?

5. When did Schneider ask permission to use a line of one of Ruth's poems?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Clara and Myrna complain about how difficult Haniya Daoud is, what does Reine-Marie tell them to remember?

2. What do Armand and Jean-Guy find when teenagers raise an alarm?

3. Why does Armand think Robinson is a catalyst?

4. Why does Armand go to see Chancellor Colette Roberge?

5. Who is the "Asshole Saint"?

6. What project is Reine-Marie working on?

7. Who stays to watch the bonfire as midnight approaches?

8. How did Jean-Guy come to work with Armand?

9. When firecrackers go off at the end of Chapter 18, who reacts and why?

10. What does the sound tech tell Jean-Guy, when Jean-Guy interviews him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Armand saves Robinson when someone shoots at her. How does his behavior run contrary to his beliefs about Robinson and her ideas? How do responsibility and duty influence Armand to act contrary to his beliefs?

Essay Topic 2

Statistics can be manipulated. In what ways can statistics be manipulated? Has Robinson manipulated the statistics or has she used the statistics to come to a wrong conclusion?

Essay Topic 3

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in The Madness of Crowds? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and people?

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