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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. Where does Blue read about Gold and the case of the murdered child?
2. What does Blue watch Black do every day?
3. What happens when Blue finally decides to contact the future Mrs. Blue?
4. What is the impulse driving the narrator in Chapter 7 of The Locked Room?
5. Where does Blue go to watch Jackie Robinson play baseball?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. 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?
3. 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?
4. 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?
5. 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?
6. 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?
7. In the early period of the case, what two extreme attitudes does Blue experience? How does each of these extreme conditions make him feel?
8. 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.
9. What is Jane Fanshawe's critique of her son? How does she describe the relationship between Fanshawe and his parents?
10. Why does Fanshawe continue to address his letters to Ellen even after her breakdown? To whom are the letters meant to communicate?
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
Doubles are an important element in City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room. Give an example of the use of doubles in each of these stories. What is the function of the double? What does the use of the double communicate about reality and certainty?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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