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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. Where do Tad and the narrator go to party?

2. What does the homeless person do on the narrator's train ride to work?

3. Who is The Druid?

4. What has happened to the narrator's proofs?

5. What sports faux pas does the narrator commit at the Irish bar?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the narrator and Amanda using each other for escape?

2. Why, after all the time that has passed, is the narrator still trying to track Amanda down?

3. Does the narrator enjoy his work in the Department of Factual Verification? Why or why not?

4. How is the narrator's love of fiction detrimental to his development as an adult?

5. How did the narrator and Amanda first meet?

6. What does the narrator think is Tad Allagash's mission in life?

7. How does the narrator describe his mother's reaction to Amanda?

8. Why is the narrator so upset when he forgets Megan's bagel?

9. Are Vicky and the narrator truly fond of Tad?

10. What point of view does the author write in, and how is it distinguished?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The narrator is obsessed with Coma Baby.

1) How are the dilemmas of the Coma Baby similar to the narrator's own?

2) In his dream about Coma Baby, what role does the narrator take on?

3) How are Coma Baby's mother and the narrator's mother parallels?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the narrator and his mother.

1) Why does Michael resent that the narrator came only days before their mother died? Why did the narrator stay away so long?

2) What does the narrator's mother reveal to him on her deathbed? How does this experience affect the narrator?

3) Why does the narrator think he has reacted so badly to Amanda's leaving?

Essay Topic 3

Do a character analysis of Clara Tillinghast. Include:

1) Her professional background.

2) Her attitude toward the narrator, both past and present.

Describe the scene where she fires the narrator. How does she react when he essentially steals her thunder? Does she get angrier that he is not upset?

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