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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. Why do the narrator and Fanshawe hitch-hike home from the cemetery on the day that Fanshawe's father dies?
2. What is the name of the film about the private eye starring Robert Mitchum that Blue goes to see?
3. Who is the editor that the narrator contacts to publish Fanshawe's work?
4. What form of payment does White send to Blue?
5. How does Blue enter Black's apartment while he is out?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the manuscript contain that Blue takes from Black's apartment after beating him up? How does the story end?
2. 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?
3. When Blue first meets White in the novel Ghosts, what type of case does he think he is becoming involved in? What does he notice about White that makes him change his opinion?
4. 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.
5. 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?
6. What does Jane Fanshawe do after lunch? What does the narrator think motivates this act?
7. 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?
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. 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?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the role of violence in The New York Trilogy? Is violence a significant theme in all three stories? Why or why not? Give specific examples from the text.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
The theme of incomprehensibility is present throughout The Locked Room. What makes the writer conclude that life does not make sense? What does this say about the writer's relationship to reality and the challenge of his work?
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