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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. How will Blue be paid for his work?
2. What is the name of the film about the private eye starring Robert Mitchum that Blue goes to see?
3. Where do Blue and Black have their second meeting?
4. What identity does Blue adopt for himself during his second conversation with Black?
5. Where is the story Ghosts set?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. 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?
3. 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?
4. 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?
5. 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?
6. 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?
7. Which of Fanshawe's works does the narrator choose to show first to the editor? What is the editor's reaction to the work?
8. What does the manuscript contain that Blue takes from Black's apartment after beating him up? How does the story end?
9. What does Jane Fanshawe do after lunch? What does the narrator think motivates this act?
10. When Blue receives his first payment from White, why is he surprised and then disappointed? What was he expecting?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the significance of the title, Ghosts? Who are the ghosts that Blue and Black discuss that are all around in New York? What are some examples of haunted men in that story?
Essay Topic 2
Fate is a significant theme in City of Glass. Give two examples of coincidences that Quinn attributes to fate. How does fate as an explanation justify Quinn's actions?
Essay Topic 3
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.
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