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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 suggestion does Henry make to Richard when Richard admits he is very worried after Bunny's murder?
2. How does Richard describe Bunny's memory at the college?
3. What message from the Corcorans does Henry relay in his letter to Richard?
4. What is "Shady Brook'?
5. When Richard confronts Camilla about her brother, what does Camilla show him?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the doctor in the emergency room recommend for Francis? Why? What does Francis tell Henry about his childhood?
2. Why does Charles become enraged with Henry? What does he believe Henry is trying to do?
3. 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?
4. What in Bunny's letter found after his death reveals to Henry that the letter is not a prank but actually written by Bunny?
5. What issue does Richard struggle with after Bunny's death? To what does he attribute the group's actions?
6. How does the search for Bunny finally come to a climax? Who is involved with the investigation at that point?
7. How do Bunny's friends at school respond to his death? What do they think happened to him?
8. How do Bunny's parents react to his disappearance? What does Richard think of their reaction?
9. How does the group manage as the guests of the Corcorans in the days before Bunny's funeral?
10. How does Richard's behavior change after the discovery of Bunny's body?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How do Richard and Bunny serve as foils for each other? What qualities does each bring out in the other that are important to the plot of the novel?
Essay Topic 2
There were a great number of clues visible to Bunny concerning his fate. What character flaws does Bunny have that prevents him from being able to see the plot of his own demise? Discuss.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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