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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. What is the woman's reaction to the conversation she has with Black in the restaurant?
2. Where is Sophie Fanshawe from originally?
3. What is the name of the bartender with whom Blue has occasional conversations when he slips out to a bar?
4. How will Blue be paid for his work?
5. According to Fanshawe's letters, what was the hardest but most interesting job he had on the ship?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Jane Fanshawe's critique of her son? How does she describe the relationship between Fanshawe and his parents?
2. What project does Stuart Green commission from the narrator? What does Sophie suggest the narrator do to make the project more interesting?
3. 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?
4. 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?
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. Why does the narrator struggle with showing Fanshawe's letter to Sophie? What does he do instead?
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. What initiates the argument between Sophie and the narrator at the end of Chapter 7? What is the status of their relationship when the narrator leaves for Paris?
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. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The New York Trilogy is in part a work of meta-fiction. How so? What does having a character named Paul Auster signify? What does the relationship between Paul Auster and the narrator of City of Glass imply about Auster's attitude towards writing?
Essay Topic 2
Maps are important objects in City of Glass. How are maps used in this story? What is the symbolic association between maps and exploration as it relates to the character of Stillman?
Essay Topic 3
Letters are important objects in The New York Trilogy. How do these objects impulse the action of the narrative? Give two specific examples from The Locked Room.
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