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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 does the narrator react to being in Fanshawe's room with his things?
2. What do the narrator and Jane Fanshawe do before the narrator leaves to return to his family?
3. How does the man wearing the Halloween mask manage to escape from Blue?
4. Where did Fanshawe tell his wife he was going on the day he disappeared?
5. Where does the narrator go at the end of Chapter 7 without Sophie and Ben?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. When Blue receives his first payment from White, why is he surprised and then disappointed? What was he expecting?
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 is the person who comes to collect Blue's report at the Brooklyn Post Office wearing? What does Blue do when he sees this person?
5. In the early period of the case, what two extreme attitudes does Blue experience? How does each of these extreme conditions make him feel?
6. 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?
7. 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?
8. Which of Fanshawe's works does the narrator choose to show first to the editor? What is the editor's reaction to the work?
9. When Black speaks to Blue about Walt Whitman, what two internal organs does he compare? What do these viscera have to do with the profession of writing?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare and contrast the time of narration and the time of action in Ghosts and The Locked Room. How is the narration different? Which of the narrators is further removed from the action? What effect does this have on the stories?
Essay Topic 2
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.
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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