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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Fanshawe do two months after his sister has her first breakdown?
(a) He quits the baseball team.
(b) He quits his job as a census-taker.
(c) He quits college.
(d) He quits writing.

2. What drink does Black order during his second encounter with Blue?
(a) A Black and Tan.
(b) A Black and White on the rocks.
(c) A Tom Collins.
(d) A Manhattan.

3. What year is it when Blue begins work on the case?
(a) 1997.
(b) 1987.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1927.

4. What does the narrator begin to suspect that Fanshawe wants him to do?
(a) He suspects that Fanshawe wants him to write his biography.
(b) He suspects that Fanshawe wants him to kill his mother.
(c) He suspects that Fanshawe wants him to divorce Sophie.
(d) He suspects that Fanshawe wants him to kill him.

5. What summer job does the narrator of The Locked Room have in June of 1970?
(a) A journalist in Manhattan.
(b) A teacher in Brooklyn.
(c) A delivery man in the Bronx.
(d) A census-taker in Harlem.

6. How does the narrator react to being in Fanshawe's room with his things?
(a) He begins to cry.
(b) He is nervous and wants to leave.
(c) He becomes angry.
(d) He is happy and thinks about the good times they had.

7. Where is the story Ghosts set?
(a) New York.
(b) Rio de Janeiro.
(c) Boston.
(d) Los Angeles.

8. What is the amount of the monetary advance White gives Blue?
(a) Five hundred dollars.
(b) One thousand dollars.
(c) Fifty dollars.
(d) One hundred dollars.

9. When he began his writing career, what had the narrator of The Locked Room hoped to become?
(a) A poet.
(b) A literary critic.
(c) A journalist.
(d) A novelist.

10. When was the last time the narrator can remember seeing Fanshawe?
(a) The day Fanshawe graduated from college.
(b) The day Fanshawe was married.
(c) The day Fanshawe's first child was born.
(d) The day Fanshawe's father died.

11. According to Jane Fanshawe, how did the narrator and Fanshawe compare physically as children?
(a) Fanshawe was much taller than the narrator.
(b) They looked like brothers, almost twins.
(c) They looked very different.
(d) The narrator was much thinner than Fanshawe.

12. Whom does White want Blue to keep an eye on?
(a) Black.
(b) Red.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Brown.

13. How does the narrator respond to the rumor that Fanshawe never existed and that he had written the works himself?
(a) He laughs and compares Fanshawe to Shakespeare.
(b) He becomes angry and denies the rumors.
(c) He cries and refuses to speak to anyone for a week.
(d) He is flattered and promotes the rumors.

14. What job do the Dedmons offer Fanshawe while they are away from France for the year?
(a) Nanny for their four children.
(b) Butler for their wealthy friends.
(c) Caretaker of their country house.
(d) Chauffeur for their elderly parents.

15. The images of which two historical figures are inspirational to Blue when he visits the churchyard?
(a) John Adams and Calvin Coolidge.
(b) Henry Ward Beecher and Abraham Lincoln.
(c) Henry David Thoreau and George Washington Carver.
(d) George Washington and Walt Whitman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Blue notice about White?

2. While living in Paris, what appliance does Fanshawe give as a gift to his elderly friend Ivan?

3. What is the impulse driving the narrator in Chapter 7 of The Locked Room?

4. What is the number of the box at the Brooklyn Post Office to which Blue sends his monthly reports?

5. Where does the narrator go at the end of Chapter 7 without Sophie and Ben?

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