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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 is the story Ghosts set?
2. What does Black tell Blue that he thinks the man he is observing is writing?
3. What is the name of the film about the private eye starring Robert Mitchum that Blue goes to see?
4. What is the word that the narrator uses to describe his attitude toward Fanshawe that is more accurate than envy?
5. What is the impulse driving the narrator in Chapter 7 of The Locked Room?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. 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?
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. What does Fanshawe do during his trip to the cemetery with the narrator on the day of his father's death? What does his action remind the narrator of from their early childhood?
5. 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?
6. 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?
7. When Blue receives his first payment from White, why is he surprised and then disappointed? What was he expecting?
8. In the early period of the case, what two extreme attitudes does Blue experience? How does each of these extreme conditions make him feel?
9. What does Jane Fanshawe do after lunch? What does the narrator think motivates this act?
10. Which of Fanshawe's works does the narrator choose to show first to the editor? What is the editor's reaction to the work?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Identity is a major theme throughout The New York Trilogy. Give one example where identity is confused or a new identity is assumed from each of the three stories. What does this confusion about identity imply about the author's view of reality?
Essay Topic 3
Maps are important objects in City of Glass. How are maps used in this story? What is the symbolic association between maps and exploration as it relates to the character of Stillman?
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