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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. Who comes to Richard's room the night after Jake Teitelbaum's party?

2. Where does Henry go after Bunny's body is found?

3. What do the police officers find in Bunny's room when they are called in to help find Bunny?

4. Where does Richard take Francis in the middle of the night on Sunday night?

5. What does Richard mumble aloud while Bunny's father collapses in tears?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the police finally become involved in the search for Bunny's body? How do the group members react to the police involvement?

2. What do the members of the group find peculiar about Bunny's father the day before the funeral?

3. How does the search for Bunny finally come to a climax? Who is involved with the investigation at that point?

4. How does the group manage as the guests of the Corcorans in the days before Bunny's funeral?

5. What does Richard begin to understand about Henry as the novel draws to its climax?

6. Where is Marion during Bunny's disappearance? What about her behavior seems unusual to the group?

7. What does Camilla reveal to Richard about her brother after she has moved out of the apartment she shares with Charles? How does Richard respond?

8. How do the group members relate to each other following Bunny's funeral? Why does Richard think they are all reacting this way?

9. What do Charles and Francis argue about the day before the funeral? Of what does Richard feel this and the other arguments among the group members is symptomatic?

10. What in Bunny's letter found after his death reveals to Henry that the letter is not a prank but actually written by Bunny?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Bunny has taken advantage of his friends, taken money, food, and possessions from them, and speak terribly of them. Yet the members of the group continue to include Bunny, allow him to take money from them, and to control their behavior. Why? How does this situation become increasingly intolerable to the group members and change their lives?

Essay Topic 2

In the end, there is only one character who seems to have come out of the experience at Hampden College intact. Who is that character? What does he do after Henry's death that is so much more than any of the other characters?

Essay Topic 3

There are only a few women in this story, and only one in the center of the action. Who is Camilla? Is she integral to the story? What role does she play in the plot of the novel?

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