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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 name does Landor use when he refers to a wandering cow in Chapter 1?

2. In Chapter 16, what is the name of one the stewards Landor speaks to during mess?

3. In Chapter 75, what is Poe's ranking out of a class of 80?

4. In what ward of the West Point hospital is Fry's body?

5. In Chapter 9, how long has it been since Poe's mother died?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Landor find on Fry's body?

2. Why does Landor converse with a steward at the mess hall in Chapter 16?

3. Why is Landor summoned to West Point?

4. In Chapter 10, what does Patsy remember about Leroy Fry?

5. Who found Cadet Fry's body, and what does he say about finding the body?

6. Why does Poe think that Landor reads poetry, and how does he learn he is mistaken?

7. What happens at West Point at 4 p.m.?

8. How is Landor innundated by people from his past in "Last Testament of Gus Landor"?

9. In Chapter 7, after Landor interviews the men who knew Leroy Fry, who does Landor ask back for more questioning and why?

10. How is Fry's body preserved until his parents can arrive?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mr. Allan comments that he never believes anything Poe says. Is Poe a serial liar? Is he ever honest and forthcoming?

Essay Topic 2

Setting is the place or places where a story happens. Where does The Pale Blue Eye take place? How do characters feel about the various settings and why?

Essay Topic 3

The climax in a novel is the highest point of tension and a turning point. What is the climax of The Pale Blue Eye and why is that incident the climax?

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