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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 does Yuri recommend to Theo in Part One, Chapter Nine?
2. What does Theo think about Kathy as he reflects on her emails in Part Two, Chapter Eight?
3. What career does the narrator have?
4. Where did Alicia go to do her painting?
5. What physical symptom does Theo experience during his second session with Alicia in Part Two, Chapter Four?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Theo resolve following his meeting with Ruth in Part Two, Chapter Nine? How does his mind change in the following chapter?
2. What painting is Alicia working on in Part Two, Chapter One? What is interesting about it?
3. What request does Theo make of Diomedes in Part Two, Chapter Two? What is the result?
4. How does the narrator describe Gabriel Berenson in Part One, Chapter One?
5. What plan of inquiry does Theo outline in Part One, Chapter Eight?
6. According to Alicia's diary in Part Two, Chapter Thirteen, what happened when Max came over for dinner?
7. Who is Jean-Felix? What does he do while Alicia is on trial for murder?
8. Who is the narrator, and what does the reader learn about him in Part One, Chapter Three?
9. According to Elif in Part Two, Chapter Eleven, why did Alicia attack her shortly after arriving at the Grove?
10. What happens when Theo meets Paul and Lydia Rose in Part Two, Chapters Sixteen and Seventeen?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the characters of Kathy, Ruth, and Alicia and analyze the effects each has on both Theo and the plot as a whole.
Essay Topic 2
To what extent does Alicia “speak” for herself in the novel? To what extent is she defined by other characters? What do others say about her? What does she say about herself? How does the reader resolve these multiple interpretations of her character?
Essay Topic 3
At one point in the novel, Alicia experiences a sense of déjà vu and thinks that “the past and present were coexisting simultaneously” (126). Explain how the novel illustrates the fluid nature of time, for both Theo and Alicia.
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