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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 game is Matt interested in?

2. Where is Marian driving to in chapter two?

3. Who drives Alma to the friary?

4. Which character is Marian having an affair with?

5. Which of the following characters collects baseball memorabilia?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Marian say she takes heroin?

2. What do people in Phoenix think about Nick's roots?

3. In what way are the men in the bar Nick and Sims go to all hair?

4. Why does Nick have his mother's surname instead of his father's?

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

6. How does Jackie Gleason entertain members of the crowd?

7. How does Marian react to Nick's fling with Donna?

8. What do we find out about Nick's past in this section?

9. Who does Nick say Brian believes he is?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why has the author chosen Nick and Klara's affair as the central part of his story? Choose two other characters that the author could ahve chosen as the central part of his story. How would the novel change?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Who was Lenny Bruce? Why does the author include him as a character in his novel?

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