Print
Word
PDF
|
| Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What job does Larry have?
(a) Photographer
(b) Editor
(c) Writer
(d) Poet
2. Where did Sid teach after losing his job in Wisconsin?
(a) Princeton
(b) Duke
(c) Yale
(d) Dartmouth
3. What event mars the onset of the plan?
(a) An argument between Charity and Sally
(b) An argument between Charity and Larry
(c) An argument between Charity and Sid
(d) An argument between Sid and Larry
4. Larry thinks about making order out of __________________________.
(a) His garage
(b) His road map
(c) The chaos that is life
(d) His study
5. What brand of car do Sid and Larry pack for a picnic?
(a) Marmon
(b) BMW
(c) Chevrolet
(d) Mercedes
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Larry describe the foursome of the Langs and the Morgans?
2. Why is Charity impatient with Sid?
3. What does Charity do when she sees the Morgans?
4. Where do Sid, Larry and Sally find Charity?
5. What does Charity say is all she needed to make her death the way she has envisioned it?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain the metaphor of Adam and Eve used throughout the novel.
2. How do the Charity, Sid and Sally remain in character when facing Charity's imminent death?
3. What happens to the relationship between the Morgans and the Langs during World War II?
4. What is the situation the characters find themselves in when the novel returns to the present day in 1972?
5. Why does Sid not want to go on the family picnic?
6. Explain the method that Sally has of categorizing her memories.
7. How does the theme of rescue extend in Part 2: Chapter 2?
8. Explain how Charity's simplistic view of life is in contrast to both Sid and the Langs?
9. Why does Larry consider their year in Italy to be one of the best and most youthful for Sally and him?
10. How has the necessity for rescue changed between the two couples?
|
This section contains 1,256 words (approx. 5 pages at 300 words per page) |
|
