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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 was Marcus's nickname in high school?

2. What did Jenny tell Marcus about his investigation when he first talked to her about it in 2008?

3. What topic did Marcus's mother always bring up in conversation with him?

4. Who was the woman who was fatally shot on the same night Nola Kellergan disappeared?

5. Which sport did Harry and Marcus often practice together?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did Harry meet Nola?

4. Why did Marcus think that Nola had been having an affair with Elijah Stern?

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

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

7. How were Nola Kellergan's remains found?

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

9. Why did Marcus decide to write a book about Harry and Nola's relationship and Nola's murder after insisting he would not?

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

What are the significant ways in which the character Marcus Goldman evolves over the course of the novel? Compare and contrast how Marcus describes himself and the decisions he makes in his high school days as "Marcus the Magnificent" and how he describes himself and the decisions he makes as he approaches age 30.

Essay Topic 2

Why does Ernie Pinkas get so angry at Marcus after Marcus's book about Nola's murder, The Harry Quebert Affair, is published? Write an essay explaining what Ernie's reaction indicates about the attitudes and social dynamics in the town of Somerset.

Essay Topic 3

Do you think Marcus's decision to publish The Seagulls of Somerset as Luther Caleb's work rights the enormous, earlier wrong that Harry committed against Luther in terms of giving appropriate credit and honoring a writer's work?

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