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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 is the name of Nick and Matt's father?

2. Who is Matt waiting for at Tucson airport?

3. What does Lundy buy from the souvenir baseball shop?

4. What does Nick's psychologist keep trying to get Nick to talk about?

5. What is the name of the woman in Chuckie's cockpit?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Matt want Janet to tell him?

2. What is Albert doing at the beginning of part six?

3. What does Hoover discuss with Clyde Tolson in this section?

4. What does Antoine explain to Manx about the word jealous?

5. Describe the meeting between Klara and her daughter?

6. How does the author describe Lenny Bruce?

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

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

9. What does Matt tell Janet about his work?

10. Describe Bruce's performance in Chicago in October 1962?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the main themes of the story. In what way are these themes relevant to the period? How does the author use character and setting to express these themes?

Essay Topic 2

What is Manx's role in the novel? What meaning does his character give the novel? How would the novel change if Manx was not a character in the novel?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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