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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 does Sophie consider to be the problem in her relationship with the narrator?
(a) The narrator's snoring.
(b) The narrator's sexual infidelity.
(c) The narrator's unemployment.
(d) The book the narrator is writing.

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

3. According to Jane Fanshawe, who is responsible for the fact that Fanshawe never published any of his work?
(a) The narrator.
(b) Ellen Fanshawe.
(c) Sophie Fanshawe.
(d) Jane Fanshawe.

4. What does Fanshawe's mother offer the narrator to help him with his project?
(a) Clothing.
(b) Money.
(c) Fanshawe's diary.
(d) Letters, photographs, and documents.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What drink does Black order during his second encounter with Blue?

2. In the narrator's recollection about second grade, to whom does Fanshawe give the present intended for the birthday boy?

3. What is the woman's reaction to the conversation she has with Black in the restaurant?

4. Where is the story Ghosts set?

5. For which of Fanshawe's friends does he write love letters to his girlfriend Sue-Anne?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What project does Stuart Green commission from the narrator? What does Sophie suggest the narrator do to make the project more interesting?

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

4. When Blue enters Black's apartment disguised as the Fuller Brush man, what does Black tell Blue his profession is? When Blue later breaks into Black's apartment and steals the papers from his desk, what does he find them to contain?

5. What event does Blue leave out of his report that elicits a response from White? What is White's response and what conclusion does Blue draw from this?

6. Which of Fanshawe's works does the narrator choose to show first to the editor? What is the editor's reaction to the work?

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. What is Jane Fanshawe's critique of her son? How does she describe the relationship between Fanshawe and his parents?

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

10. 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?

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