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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 Hoover think of when he looks at the picture by Bruegel?

2. Who does Nick remember at the end of the chapter who has been dead for years?

3. Who does Glassic say has the baseball from the Bobby Thomson game?

4. What does Alma do at the Friary?

5. Why is Brian in Prescott?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did sister Edgar stop hitting kids?

2. Why is Nick upset with Marian before he leaves for work?

3. How does Cotter get into the baseball game without paying?

4. What problems does Edgar Hoover have with his appearance?

5. Why does Hoover appreciate Truman's timing in the announcement of the Soviet bomb?

6. How are Nick and Klara's lives different?

7. Why does Nick say his mother likes Jackie Gleason so much?

8. Who does Nick say Brian believes he is?

9. Who was Albert Bronzini?

10. Why does Mike think his mother should stay in New York?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What decisions do the students think Nick regrets in his life? Choose one of the decisions he regrets and dicuss how his life would have been different if he had taken a different decision?

Essay Topic 2

What is post modernism? In what way is Don De Lillo a post modern writer?

Essay Topic 3

How is the Texas Highway killing significant to the story? Why do you think the author does explore the killings and the murderer further?

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