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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 adjectives does Black use to describe his mask?
(a) Familiar and comforting.
(b) Grotesque and frightening.
(c) Ugly and unflattering.
(d) Funny and colorful.

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

3. What are the two nicknames by which Fanshawe was known on the ship?
(a) The "Kid" and the "Professor."
(b) The "Boy" and the "Lady's man."
(c) The "Captain" and the "Writer."
(d) The "Baby" and the "Doctor."

4. What disease does Fanshawe's father have?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) AIDS.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Gout.

5. How does Blue enter Black's apartment while he is out?
(a) He climbs through a window.
(b) He asks the landlord to let him in.
(c) He kicks down the door.
(d) He picks the door lock.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the impulse driving the narrator in Chapter 7 of The Locked Room?

2. What does Fanshawe warn the narrator about in his letter?

3. What is the number of the box at the Brooklyn Post Office to which Blue sends his monthly reports?

4. What is the name of the film about the private eye starring Robert Mitchum that Blue goes to see?

5. Where do Sophie and the narrator meet to discuss Fanshawe's work at the narrator's suggestion?

Short Essay Questions

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

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. During their second conversation, what is Black's response when Blue asks him if the man he watches knows he is being watched? How does Black justify his answer?

4. Why does the narrator struggle with showing Fanshawe's letter to Sophie? What does he do instead?

5. In the early period of the case, what two extreme attitudes does Blue experience? How does each of these extreme conditions make him feel?

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

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

8. What is unusual about the letter that the narrator supposedly receives from Fanshawe? How does this quirk help to convince the narrator of the letter's veracity?

9. When Blue receives his first payment from White, why is he surprised and then disappointed? What was he expecting?

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

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