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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 Ochs find out Berryman used his credit card for before the Fourth of July?

2. Who is Johnboy's sworn enemy?

3. What is used in order to treat Ben when first arriving at the William Pound Institute?

4. Who hired the Southern man?

5. Who does Ben have information on?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ochs ask the guard at the mental institute to do for him, and what events follow his request?

2. When Ochs returns to Tennessee after visiting Ben in the mental institution, what does he learn about Berryman? Why is it important?

3. When Ochs returns to Long Island, what information is he given?

4. What causes Ochs to be unhappy during his final meeting with Ben?

5. Explain the crime that Ben commits after accepting the order to kill Horn.

6. Who is Johnboy Terrell and what is his relationship with the Southern man?

7. What news does Ochs receive while bathing in his hotel room?

8. What does Ben Toy inform Ochs Jones about Thomas Berryman's last job when he was hired as a hit man?

9. Why is Ochs sent to Long Island?

10. What does the reader find out is the plot of the story after reading the Prologue?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Part 7, Ochs visits Joe Cubbah in prison. Why does Ochs do this? What does Cubbah admit to Ochs? Did Ochs's visit help his research in any way? What led Ochs to Cubbah in the first place? Justify your response by using examples from the reading.

Essay Topic 2

During Ochs's second meeting with Ben, Ben expresses why he was admitted to the mental institution. Why is Ben institutionalized? Who admits him? Was anything done in order to help Ben's depression?

Essay Topic 3

Ochs is writing a book the events that led to Horn's assassination; the story will also reveal the true murderer. Ochs already knows a vast amount of information on Horn due to his research as well as the articles he has written on Horn. How does Ochs describe Horn? What could Ochs's opinion of Horn mean for his investigation? Is he biased due to his previous following of Horn and his career?

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