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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 the doctor want to do to the strangler?

2. Who was Aristonidis?

3. How do the elders decide to sacrifice the young woman?

4. Which of the following might be found at a hunger strike?

5. What does Hedvig offer to do at the end of "I Prefer to Yodel"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author state about a hunger strike?

2. What happens to the doctor in the alley and what does he tell Kleinman?

3. How does God "test" job and why?

4. What does Kleinman learn about the killer as he speaks to him? What does Kleinman suggest to the killer?

5. How does God help a small business owner and what is the response of the other business owners?

6. What does Kaiser find when he arrives at Hunter College Book Store?

7. Who is Dr. Osgood Mulford Twelge and what does he do?

8. Why does Berte kill herself?

9. What does the reader derive about ghosts or spirits by reading "Examining Psychic Phenomena"?

10. Who are Netta and Dorf and what do they represent?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is an ethicist and what is ethicist writing? Please provide an example of ethicist type writing found in "Without Feathers" and what various characteristics or structure makes this section an example of ethicist writing.

Essay Topic 2

Please define the role of tone in a literary work. How is tone conveyed in literature? Please provide three examples from the book of tone.

Essay Topic 3

Please define pulp fiction and whodunit writing styles that we have learned about and provide a brief history of these types of writing. Provide an example of each that can be found in "Without Feathers."

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