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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. Want does Manx want to do with the baseball?

2. What killer does this section introduce?

3. What is the name of the Lexus driver?

4. What kind of car is the man driving across the desert?

5. What do the nuns find for Ismael?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who was Albert Bronzini?

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

4. How does Nick know Klara Sax?

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

6. How did Nick's son change after the LA riots?

7. Why does Nick think his mother should move to Phoenix?

8. How do Matt and Nick's views on their father differ?

9. Who does Nick say Brian believes he is?

10. Why does Marian say she takes heroin?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is Klara's character at the beginning of the novel? How does her character change through the novel? How does the author express this change? What events have the biggest impact on Klara's life and why?

Essay Topic 2

Which of the eras depicted in the book would you most like to live in and why? How accurate do you think is the author's of the era you have chosen?

Essay Topic 3

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

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