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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. Why does Carmine think Batman ignored what Dent was doing?

2. Who is pointing a gun at Jim Gordon at the end of this chapter?

3. What is the medicine that Sal takes?

4. Where does the gunsmith live that makes a custom .22 pistol every month?

5. What does Harvey do to calm down Grundy?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Scarecrow?

2. How is Bruce Wayne's father connected with Falcone?

3. Why does the Riddler think Carla Viti could be the Holiday killer?

4. In what way does the Riddler have a lucky escape in this section?

5. What does Harvey tell his wife in this section?

6. How does the fear gas affect Bruce Wayne?

7. Why does the Riddler think Catwoman maybe Holiday?

8. Why does Batman think Maroni is Holiday?

9. What do Batman and the Riddler talk about at the bar?

10. What do Gilda and Barbara say about their husbands in this section?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why are the super villains such as Joker and Scarecrow seen as freaks of society? How has this label affected them as people? What does such an attitude say about our own society?

Essay Topic 2

Compare one of the characters to the person he or she was at the beginning of the book to the he or she is at the end.

1. What did he or she hope to achieve at the beginning of the book?

2. What events changes his or hers ideas about life?

3. How has his or hers character changed by the end of the book?

Essay Topic 3

What do the students think are the problems of recreating a comic strip using old characters and settings? How does Loeb try and uses the old characters and settings to create a new meaning? How does this new meaning relate to contemporary society?

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