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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 Theo think about Kathy as he reflects on her emails in Part Two, Chapter Eight?

2. Why does Alicia shake her head no in Part Two, Chapter Seven?

3. Who is the head psychiatric nurse at the Grove?

4. Who is the manager at the Grove?

5. What is the name of the narrator?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens during Theo's first meeting with Alicia in Part One, Chapter Seven?

2. What request does Theo make of Diomedes in Part Two, Chapter Two? What is the result?

3. What paintings does Theo see when he visits the art gallery in Part Two, Chapter Twenty?

4. What does the reader learn about Alicia's mother in Part Two, Chapter One?

5. What painting is Alicia working on in Part Two, Chapter One? What is interesting about it?

6. Who is Kathy? How did she and Theo meet?

7. Who is the narrator, and what does the reader learn about him in Part One, Chapter Three?

8. What happens during Theo's second session with Alicia in Part Two, Chapter Four?

9. Why does Theo's former supervisor believe taking a job at the Grove is a bad idea?

10. Why does Diomedes warn Theo in Part Two, Chapter Fourteen? What does Theo do as a result?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Theo’s relationship with his father with Alicia’s relationship with her father. How are they similar, and how are they different? How did their fathers create the adults their children became?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay defining love from Theo’s perspective. What is love, according to Theo? How does his choices over the course of the novel reflect these values?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze how Greek mythology influences the novel’s characters, plot, and structure.

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