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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. Why did Darren lose his job?
2. What caused Jane to start to receive obscene and threatening phone calls?
3. Where is Ziegler carted away to, at the end of the story?
4. Where does Darren say he feels safe?
5. In Jane’s recollection, when did she discover she failed to purchase airline tickets for her trip?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the narrator characterize Adam’s role in the debate team?
2. What was the super power Darren believed he had?
3. What was Jonathan studying for his dissertation?
4. What did Jonathan find captivating about the Duccio Madonna and Child painting in the Met?
5. How does Jane say Sima was different from the other therapists at the Foundation?
6. What is Adam’s relationship with Dr. Erwood?
7. How does Jane characterize her relationship with Sima?
8. What was it that the Foundation community found humorous when Jonathan screened the film he made of the Ziegler story?
9. How does the narrator describe the importance of the spread beyond debate?
10. What are the kinds of things Darren finds and puts in his pockets and gauges his identity by?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Identify the most important plot points in The Topeka School. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?
Essay Topic 2
What are the strengths and weaknesses of Ben Lerner’s representation of Darren, the developmentally delayed ex-student? Does this portrait ring true, or does it sound false, or caricaturish? What work does Darren’s character do for the narrative? How does his presence reveal the personalities of the other characters?
Essay Topic 3
Who is the audience for The Topeka School? What is the ideal reader for The Topeka School likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is this book trying to teach its reader?
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