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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 amount of the monetary advance White gives Blue?
2. In what condition does Blue leave Black in the apartment?
3. What does Blue watch Black do every day?
4. What happens when Blue finally decides to contact the future Mrs. Blue?
5. What does Black tell Blue that he thinks the man he is observing is writing?
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. 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. Why does the narrator struggle with showing Fanshawe's letter to Sophie? What does he do instead?
5. 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.
6. 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?
7. 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?
8. 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?
9. Who told Blue stories about the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge? What was this person's profession and what became of him?
10. What project does Stuart Green commission from the narrator? What does Sophie suggest the narrator do to make the project more interesting?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
At the end of The Locked Room, the writer reads Fanshawe's red notebook and remarks, "All the words were familiar to me, and yet they seemed to have been put together strangely, as though their final purpose was to cancel each other out. I can think of no other way to express it. Each sentence erased the sentence before it, each paragraph made the next paragraph impossible." What theme from the story is exemplified in this quote? Give three examples of this theme throughout The New York Trilogy.
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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