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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.

Why did Omar go to Hartford, Connecticut? (from A Bit of a Mystery - The Entire Point of a College Education)

He grew up there.

He had friends who lived there.

Nicholas Gall took him there.

He thought the police would not be able to find him there.

2.

Why does Naomi idolize female college presidents? (from He Lost a Few Years - Pseud’s Corner Office)

As a child, she had dreamed of becoming a college president.

Naomi thinks that college presidencies are the epitome of authority.

The female college presidents she has met have been very kind and intelligent.

She considers them to be evidence of the success of second-wave feminism.

3.

How would Naomi's political beliefs be defined, when compared to those of the Webster Dissent? (from Permission to Enter - The Ur-Rule)

Naomi has the same political beliefs as the Webster Dissent.

More conservative.

More radical.

More liberal.

4.

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

Webster and Scrooge are both equated to miserly behavior.

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

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.

5.

Why does Naomi keep wondering about Robbins Petavit's age? (from A Bit of a Mystery - The Entire Point of a College Education)

She finds him attractive and wants to date him.

She thinks he looks much younger than her but he is already a successful professor..

She and Robbins were in school together but she cannot remember what year he graduated.

She thinks he looks much older than her but he keeps hitting on her.

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