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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What team does Jackie Robinson play for in 1947?
(a) The Dodgers.
(b) The Jets.
(c) The Mets.
(d) The Yankees.

3. What does Black tell Blue that he thinks the man he is observing is writing?
(a) A historical novel.
(b) A cookbook.
(c) Poetry.
(d) The story of his life.

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

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

6. What happens when Blue finally decides to contact the future Mrs. Blue?
(a) No one answers his telephone call.
(b) He sends her a telegram but she never receives it.
(c) He writes her a letter and does not receive a reply.
(d) They agree to meet in the park but she doesn't come.

7. What disguise does Blue use for his third encounter with Black?
(a) The Fuller Brush man.
(b) The landlord.
(c) The mailman.
(d) The cable repairman.

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

9. What does Blue find when he opens the door to Black's apartment after Black tells him to come in?
(a) Black sitting on the toliet, reading a magazine.
(b) Black sitting at his computer, writing.
(c) Black sitting at the table, eating.
(d) Black wearing the Halloween mask, pointing a gun at him.

10. Where did Fanshawe tell his wife he was going on the day he disappeared?
(a) To Manhattan to meet with a client.
(b) To Atlantic City to gamble.
(c) To New Jersey to visit his mother.
(d) To Broadway to see a musical.

11. What project does Stuart Green propose the narrator undertake?
(a) To write a work of literary criticism about Fanshawe's work.
(b) To edit a collection of Fanshawe's personal correspondence.
(c) To write a biography of Fanshawe.
(d) To write a novel.

12. Who is the editor that the narrator contacts to publish Fanshawe's work?
(a) Roger Fanshawe.
(b) Sam Smith.
(c) Stuart Green.
(d) Stuart Black.

13. Which of Fanshawe's friends from Harvard had his father arranged for Fanshawe's job on an oil tanker?
(a) Otis Smart.
(b) Paul Schiff.
(c) Jeffrey Brown.
(d) Roy Cutbirth.

14. From where was Fanshawe's letter postmarked?
(a) New York.
(b) Mexico City.
(c) New Jersey.
(d) Paris.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What conclusion does the narrator draw from the examples of La Chère and Da Ponte?

2. What year is it when Blue begins work on the case?

3. What is absent from amongst Fanshawe's writings in the suitcase?

4. While living in France, to which country does Fanshawe take a three-week trip?

5. In Chapter 1 of The Locked Room, from whom does the narrator receive a letter?

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