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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 the name of the gallery that Julian is opening?

2. What does Anita want Samantha to do for herself?

3. What comparison does Peter make about a painter who isn't painting?

4. What does Dee go to the proprietor's apartment for?

5. What three items does Lipsey have to begin his investigation?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Dee's search for the painting begin and why is it a bust?

2. What lecture does Peter give his art students and why?

3. Why does Julian head to Samantha's house after he speaks with his father-in-law about money?

4. Who is Anita and how does she play a part in the decisions that Samantha is about to make?

5. Who else has Mitch gotten involved with the forgery caper while Peter was gone?

6. What contest do Peter and Mitch have and why? What comes out of the contest?

7. What information does the rabbi give Dee that will help her further her search?

8. How does the novel open? What characters are introduced? Where are they? Why are they there? What set-up is given right away about Dee and her future?

9. What does Julian find when he returns home from selling Sarah's car, and how does he use it to his advantage?

10. How does Lipsey fail in getting information from the old man who knew Modigliani and who had given information to Dee?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the scene at the party in which Joe Davies reveals Tom's past reveal the values of the characters and the society in which they live? What contribution does this scene make to the whole novel?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay in which you identify the mystery of the novel and explain how the investigation illuminates the meaning of the work as a whole.

Essay Topic 3

Past events in the novel affect both positively and negatively the present actions and attitudes of certain characters. Choose a character and explain how the past event and the character's relationship to it, contributes to the meaning of the whole novel.

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