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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Blue and Black have their second meeting?
(a) In Blue's apartment.
(b) In the Algonquin Hotel.
(c) On Madison Avenue.
(d) On the Brooklyn Bridge.

2. Where does Blue go to watch Jackie Robinson play baseball?
(a) Shea Stadium.
(b) Madison Square Garden.
(c) Wrigley Field.
(d) Ebbets Field.

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

4. What is the name of the science of reading bumps on the skull that Whitman believed in?
(a) Phrenology.
(b) Theology.
(c) Astrology.
(d) Ontology.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What summer job does the narrator of The Locked Room have in June of 1970?

2. Where is Sophie Fanshawe from originally?

3. What disguise does Blue use for his third encounter with Black?

4. What varsity sport did Fanshawe play for a brief period in his sophomore year before suddenly quitting the team?

5. According to Fanshawe's letters, what was the hardest but most interesting job he had on the ship?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the manuscript contain that Blue takes from Black's apartment after beating him up? How does the story end?

2. According to the narrator's recollection, why does Fanshawe give his birthday gift to Dennis Walden? What is the outcome and why is this incident significant for the narrator?

3. What initiates the argument between Sophie and the narrator at the end of Chapter 7? What is the status of their relationship when the narrator leaves for Paris?

4. What does Blue want to do when he thinks about the future Mrs. Blue? How does this make him realize that he is changing?

5. What does Fanshawe do during his trip to the cemetery with the narrator on the day of his father's death? What does his action remind the narrator of from their early childhood?

6. What does Jane Fanshawe do after lunch? What does the narrator think motivates this act?

7. In The Locked Room, what is Sophie Fanshawe's condition when her husband goes missing? Describe the trajectory of her emotional reaction to his disappearance.

8. About what aspect of Fanshawe's writing do Sophie and Fanshawe disagree? What is the compromise that Fanshawe offers her a few months before his disappearance?

9. Who told Blue stories about the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge? What was this person's profession and what became of him?

10. What is Sophie Fanshawe's reaction to the narrator's opinion of Fanshawe's work? Why does the narrator assume that she reacts in this way?

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