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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In the story The Locked Room, when did the narrator meet Fanshawe?
(a) Seven years ago.
(b) In college.
(c) When they were babies.
(d) In second grade.

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

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

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

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

8. In Chapter 1 of The Locked Room, from whom does the narrator receive a letter?
(a) Ben Fanshawe.
(b) Fanshawe.
(c) Sophie Fanshawe.
(d) Fanshawe's mother.

9. What does the narrator do after receiving Fanshawe's letter?
(a) He proposes marriage to Sophie.
(b) He tells the editor to stop publishing Fanshawe's work.
(c) He ends his relationship with Sophie.
(d) He hires a private investigator to find Fanshawe.

10. While living in Paris, what appliance does Fanshawe give as a gift to his elderly friend Ivan?
(a) A dishwasher.
(b) A blender.
(c) An electric range.
(d) A refrigerator.

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

12. What is the name of the bartender with whom Blue has occasional conversations when he slips out to a bar?
(a) Red.
(b) Gray.
(c) Violet.
(d) Brown.

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

14. What is the number of the box at the Brooklyn Post Office to which Blue sends his monthly reports?
(a) 1,001.
(b) 1,947.
(c) 312.
(d) 1,007.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Blue enter Black's apartment while he is out?

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

3. When he began his writing career, what had the narrator of The Locked Room hoped to become?

4. Whom does Blue telephone to inform that he will be going undercover?

5. According to the information provided in the first paragraph of Ghosts, who is it that walks through the door, thus beginning the story?

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