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The Devil and Webster Quiz

Jean Hanff Korelitz

This Study Guide consists of approximately 63 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Devil and Webster.

The Devil and Webster by Jean Hanff Korelitz

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+Chapters Summary and Analysis

Prologue - Naomi Roth's Defining Moment

The Tenant of Radclyffe Hall - Into the Woods

A Long History of Capitulation - The Very Soul of Webster

He Lost a Few Years - Pseud’s Corner Office

Permission to Enter - The Ur-Rule

Just Annoying Bureaucratic Shit - The Basement of Sojourner Truth

This Is the Place - What a Long Strange Trip it’s Been

No One Is Blaming You - Speaking Truth to Power

Not That Kind of Bomb - The Point of Looking Closely

A Bit of a Mystery - The Entire Point of a College Education

Symbols and Symbolism

Themes and Motifs

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Jean Hanff Korelitz

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

Who is Lisa Rearden? (from No One Is Blaming You - Speaking Truth to Power)

Naomi's alter ego.

Naomi's best friend in Goddard, New Hampshire.

Naomi's ideal self.

Naomi's political idol.

2.

Why does a news commentator say Naomi's reaction to the Webster Dissent may just be "sour grapes"? (240). (from No One Is Blaming You - Speaking Truth to Power)

Naomi has a history of student activism.

Naomi is dismissive of the Webster Dissent.

Naomi is not the leader of the Webster Dissent.

Naomi is regretful that she is no longer an activist.

3.

Who do the police first suspect of firebombing Naomi's office? (from Not That Kind of Bomb - The Point of Looking Closely)

Hannah.

Naomi.

Omar.

An unnamed reporter.

4.

Why does Naomi compare herself to segregationists and war criminals in This is the Place? (from This Is the Place - What a Long Strange Trip it’s Been)

She thinks the Webster Dissent is portraying her to the press like a violent racist.

She realizes that her beliefs and actions are harmful.

She is being villainized by the press.

She wishes she had the ability to wield authority like segregationists and war criminals did.

5.

Why does Naomi compare Webster College to Ebenezer Scrooge? (from Permission to Enter - The Ur-Rule)

Webster and Scrooge are both brave enough to change themselves for the better.

Webster and Scrooge are both greedy at the expense of the poor.

Webster was founded the same year that Dickens published A Christmas Carol.

Webster and Scrooge are both equated to miserly behavior.

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