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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. Which of Lenny Bruce's routines offends people?

2. What is the name of Nick and Matt's father?

3. Who is Matt waiting for at Tucson airport?

4. Why does Nick have to have dinner by candlelight in this section?

5. Where does Klara meet her daughter for lunch?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the meeting between Klara and her daughter?

2. What do Miles and Klara do together int his section?

3. What does this section say about how society is changing?

4. How does Nick get a job at the soft drink company?

5. How does Manx sell the baseball?

6. Describe Lenny Bruce's performance in Miami in October 1962?

7. What is the relationship Klara has with Miles?

8. What do the fragments portray in this section?

9. How does Manx react to the super's accusations that he stole the shovels?

10. What does this section state about Klara's life in the Bronx?

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

In what way is Nick typical of New York? How has being from New York shaped his character?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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