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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. Who kills Cavendish?

2. What weapon has the captor used on the hostage in the secret room?

3. Whom does Amadeus electrocute?

4. What does Arkham carve into the floor?

5. How is the decision made to determine whether the hero goes free?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the hero defeat Clayface?

2. How does a memory from decades earlier described in Arkham's journal relate to the hero?

3. Why does Arkham write his journal? What does the location where he stores it say about him?

4. What idea does the hero contrive to allow the inmates to decide whether he lives or dies?

5. What effect has the secret room had on Cavendish and why?

6. Explain why Cavendish gets involved in crossing the lives of Arkham and the hero.

7. Who is the little girl at the end of the novel and why are her panels important?

8. Where does the blood trail lead and what does the hero realize at the end of it?

9. Briefly discuss the symbolism of Two Face knocking down the card house.

10. How does Arkham get the laughing he hears from an empty room to stop. Why does this work?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Batman and Amadeus Arkham. How do their parallel stories finally intersect?

Essay Topic 2

What is a theme in literature? What is the theme of this graphic novel? How is the theme related to the reader?

Essay Topic 3

Define flashback. How does this graphic novel use flashbacks to tell the story? Choose two different characters and give detailed examples of flashbacks that they experience.

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