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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where did Virginia and Peter Stillman meet?
2. What does Quinn do for a living?
3. Where is Quinn the second time the telephone rings?
4. What is the name of Paul Auster's son?
5. What is the title of Quinn's book of poetry?
Short Essay Questions
1. While Quinn is living in the alleyway in Chapter 12, what is his sleep schedule like? How is he able to measure the amount of time he has been sleeping?
2. What is the message spelled out by the letters of the maps in Chapter 8? What does this message reveal to Quinn about Stillman?
3. Why is Virginia Stillman scared when Quinn calls her at the end of Chapter 9? What makes her think that Stillman may have contacted Peter?
4. Why did Stillman invent the persona of Henry Dark? What significance does this name have?
5. According to Stillman's book, where should the new paradise be built? When should this building occur and why then?
6. What is Stillman's theory about having children? What is the correlation between having children and knowledge?
7. What is the first thing that Quinn writes in the red notebook? Why is this significant?
8. In Chapter 13, where does Quinn go? What does he do there?
9. Where does Stillman go after leaving Grand Central Station? Why is Quinn surprised by this?
10. What role does fate have in Quinn's involvement in the Stillman case? What does Quinn consider to be a sign of fate's decision?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the importance of setting in the three novels that comprise The New York Trilogy? How is the city represented in each of the novels? What associations does New York have with writing and writers?
Essay Topic 2
Deception is a major theme in The Locked Room. Give three examples of deception in the story and explain the consequences for the writer. What message is communicated about deception and truth in the story?
Essay Topic 3
Choose two symbols from City of Glass and write an essay about how they are used. Give specific examples from the text. How do these symbols reinforce themes from the story?
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