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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 project does Stuart Green propose the narrator undertake?
2. How does the man wearing the Halloween mask manage to escape from Blue?
3. What does Sophie consider to be the problem in her relationship with the narrator?
4. What is absent from amongst Fanshawe's writings in the suitcase?
5. What is the name of the science of reading bumps on the skull that Whitman believed in?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What project does Stuart Green commission from the narrator? What does Sophie suggest the narrator do to make the project more interesting?
3. In the early period of the case, what two extreme attitudes does Blue experience? How does each of these extreme conditions make him feel?
4. Which of Fanshawe's works does the narrator choose to show first to the editor? What is the editor's reaction to the work?
5. 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?
6. What does Blue want to do when he thinks about the future Mrs. Blue? How does this make him realize that he is changing?
7. 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?
8. What is difficult for Blue about writing the monthly reports of Black's activities for White to read? What does he want to include in the reports to make them more truthful?
9. 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?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Throughout The New York Trilogy, there are allusions to Robinson Crusoe. Give an example from each of the three stories. What is the significance of this allusion? What is the relationship between isolation and writing?
Essay Topic 2
The theme of incomprehensibility is present throughout The Locked Room. What makes the writer conclude that life does not make sense? What does this say about the writer's relationship to reality and the challenge of his work?
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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