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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. Whom does White want Blue to keep an eye on?
2. What is the name of the first novel of Fanshawe's that the narrator gives to the editor?
3. What does Fanshawe's mother offer the narrator to help him with his project?
4. What do the narrator and Jane Fanshawe do before the narrator leaves to return to his family?
5. How does Blue enter Black's apartment while he is out?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. In the early period of the case, what two extreme attitudes does Blue experience? How does each of these extreme conditions make him feel?
3. What does Blue want to do when he thinks about the future Mrs. Blue? How does this make him realize that he is changing?
4. Why does the narrator struggle with showing Fanshawe's letter to Sophie? What does he do instead?
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 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. 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 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 project does Stuart Green commission from the narrator? What does Sophie suggest the narrator do to make the project more interesting?
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
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 2
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 3
Authorship and authority are major themes in City of Glass. Compare the role of Cid Hamete Benengeli in Don Quixote to the role of Quinn in City of Glass. How do these fictional sources reinforce the author's ethos in each case?
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