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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. Where was the prison where Harry was held in 2008?

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

3. What did Tamara find in Harry's house that she planned to use against him to ruin his reputation?

4. What type of writing did Harry tell Marcus to exclusively write?

5. What is the name of the head individual at Marcus's publisher?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Marcus asked Harry how he will know he is a writer. What did Harry tell him?

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

4. What is one main reason that Jenny Quinn thought Harry might be in love with her in 1975?

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

6. What is the Writer's Disease Marcus Goldman describes at the book's start?

7. Why did Marcus choose Burrows College over the more prestigious Harvard or Yale?

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

9. What event led directly to Nola's suicide attempt?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In what important ways are Marcus Goldman and Harry Quebert similar characters? In what important ways are they different?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

While many characters are repulsed by Harry and Nola's love affair because of the dramatic age difference between them, other characters, including Marcus, come to view it as genuine. Do you think Dicker made a convincing case that there was real, deep love between Harry and Nola?

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