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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. How did Travis Dawn feel about Jenny?

2. What was the name of the Motel where Harry and Nola had planned to meet to run away together?

3. Where did Marcus Goldman live when the book opens in 2008?

4. Who did Nancy tell Marcus she had seen Nola with several times in the summer of 1975?

5. What did Harry tell Marcus the first time Marcus asked him for his opinion on his writing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Travis Dawn habitually do before he would speak to Jenny?

2. How did Harry meet Nola?

3. Why did Harry tell Marcus to write only fiction?

4. Why did David Kellergan tell Marcus he always listens to music in his garage so loudly?

5. How did Marcus achieve his successes in high school and college, in both sports and writing?

6. How did Jenny's mother, Tamara Quinn, feel about the prospect of a relationship between Harry and Jenny?

7. When Marcus questioned Jenny as part of his investigation, what did Jenny tell Marcus about how Harry felt about him that shocked Marcus?

8. What did Harry tell Marcus is the only way to know if he really loved someone?

9. How did Tamara Quinn attempt to figure out if Harry was Jewish?

10. After Marcus began receiving threatening notes, what happened that was a far more dangerous warning for him to stop his investigation?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Harry loves the house at Goose Cove, which he eventually buys, at least in part because he thinks it will be a perfect setting in which to write. What does the ruin of the house through arson symbolize? Discuss the evolving meanings of the house at Goose Cove from when Harry first moves in in 1975 to when Marcus decides to restore it at the novel's end.

Essay Topic 2

Harry gives Marcus advice about women, and he also gives a somewhat controversial, provocative speech about a real-life sex scandal on Marcus's college campus. What is your assessment of Harry's general attitudes toward women? Cite specific examples from the text in your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Dicker's treatment of writing both as an art form and a business enterprise. Consider the interactions, decisions and dialogue of both Harry and Marcus, two famous writers, on this topic in forming your answer.

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