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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. What is the woman's reaction to the conversation she has with Black in the restaurant?
(a) She is nonchalant and unresponsive.
(b) She is giddy and giggles.
(c) She is happy and laughs.
(d) She is upset and begins to cry.

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

3. Why is the narrator apprehensive about opening the suitcases and reading Fanshawe's work?
(a) He worries that he will read something very personal about Sophie and Fanshawe's relationship.
(b) He remembers that Fanshawe liked to write about things that did not interest him.
(c) He has too much of his own work to do and is worried about the time it will take.
(d) He doesn't want Fanshawe's work to be bad, but neither does he want it to be good.

4. On what occasion does the sexual relationship between the narrator and Sophie Fanshawe begin?
(a) On the day that Fanshawe's work is accepted by the publisher.
(b) On the narrator's birthday.
(c) On the day that they meet to discuss Fanshawe's work for the first time.
(d) On Sophie Fanshawe's birthday.

5. 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) Kant.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) Spinoza.
(d) Hume.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the editor that the narrator contacts to publish Fanshawe's work?

2. Whom does White want Blue to keep an eye on?

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

4. What is the amount of the monetary advance White gives Blue?

5. What form of payment does White send to Blue?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the narrator learn about Fanshawe through his interviews with Fanshawe's friends and family? What is he looking for that he does not find?

3. 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.

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

5. 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?

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

7. What is the person who comes to collect Blue's report at the Brooklyn Post Office wearing? What does Blue do when he sees this person?

8. Why does Fanshawe continue to address his letters to Ellen even after her breakdown? To whom are the letters meant to communicate?

9. 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?

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

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