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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How will Blue be paid for his work?
(a) A check in the mail.
(b) Paid up front.
(c) Direct deposit.
(d) Upon completion of the assignment.

2. According to Fanshawe's letters, what was the hardest but most interesting job he had on the ship?
(a) A messman.
(b) A utility man.
(c) An ordinary seaman.
(d) The captain.

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

4. Whom does Blue telephone to inform that he will be going undercover?
(a) The future Mrs. Blue.
(b) His mother.
(c) His cousin.
(d) Walt Whitman.

5. What is the word that the narrator uses to describe his attitude toward Fanshawe that is more accurate than envy?
(a) Suspicion.
(b) Adoration.
(c) Shame.
(d) Hatred.

6. What words are used to describe Blue's state of mind during the early period of the case?
(a) Tranquility and decision.
(b) Ambivalence and conflict.
(c) Depression and infatuation.
(d) Happiness and contentment.

7. What does Blue watch Black do every day?
(a) Watch television.
(b) Drink bourbon and smoke.
(c) Read and write.
(d) Cook and clean.

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

9. What do the narrator and Jane Fanshawe do before the narrator leaves to return to his family?
(a) They go next door to visit the narrator's parents.
(b) They get into an argument.
(c) They go for a walk around the city.
(d) They eat lunch, talk, and have sex.

10. To which philosopher is attributed this quote that the narrator tacks onto the wall: "And when he dreams he does not want to write, he does not have the power to dream he wants to write; and when he dreams he wants to write, he does not have the power to dream he does not want to write."
(a) Nietzsche.
(b) Kant.
(c) Hume.
(d) Spinoza.

11. When Fanshawe first begins to write, who are his models?
(a) Salinger and Plath.
(b) Whitman and Shelley.
(c) Poe and Stevenson.
(d) Hawthorne and Williams.

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

13. Where do Sophie and the narrator meet to discuss Fanshawe's work at the narrator's suggestion?
(a) A fashionable French restaurant.
(b) A fast food restaurant.
(c) The narrator's apartment.
(d) Sophie Fanshawe's apartment.

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

15. According to the information provided in the first paragraph of Ghosts, who is it that walks through the door, thus beginning the story?
(a) Brown.
(b) White.
(c) Blue.
(d) Black.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a speculum?

2. What does the narrator do after receiving Fanshawe's letter?

3. How does the narrator respond to the rumor that Fanshawe never existed and that he had written the works himself?

4. Why is the narrator apprehensive about opening the suitcases and reading Fanshawe's work?

5. How old is Sophie when she meets the narrator of The Locked Room?

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