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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 team does Jackie Robinson play for in 1947?
(a) The Jets.
(b) The Mets.
(c) The Yankees.
(d) The Dodgers.

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

3. How does the man wearing the Halloween mask manage to escape from Blue?
(a) He leaps aboard a bus.
(b) He disappears into an alleyway.
(c) He climbs a fence.
(d) He runs into a crowded train station.

4. What is the name that Blue uses when he disguises himself as a beggar?
(a) Tommy Violet.
(b) Jimmy Rose.
(c) Billy Scarlet.
(d) Bobby Lilac.

5. What is absent from amongst Fanshawe's writings in the suitcase?
(a) Letters and diaries.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Plays.
(d) Novels.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the narrator and Jane Fanshawe do before the narrator leaves to return to his family?

2. How will Blue be paid for his work?

3. Where did Fanshawe tell his wife he was going on the day he disappeared?

4. 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."

5. During their second conversation, what does Black tell Blue that he does for a living?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is difficult for Blue about writing the monthly reports of Black's activities for White to read? What does he want to include in the reports to make them more truthful?

2. What aspects of Fanshawe's background could be considered possible liabilities on the ship? How does his background affect the way in which he is actually treated by his fellow shipmates?

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

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

5. 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?

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

7. 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?

8. When the narrator agrees to Stuart Green's project, what does he decide he will have to be deceitful about? How does this change the work he has been commissioned to do?

9. 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?

10. 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?

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