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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. Which of the following denies the guilty party accommodations in Fife’s work on priestly misconduct?
2. The comment about Straford that it is “the reverse side of the coin that bears the ghetto on its face” (125) offers an example of which of the following?
3. Which of the following constellations does Fife note as he enters Vermont?
4. To which of the following does Malcolm compare Fife?
5. From which of the following colleges did a teenage Fife flee?
Short Essay Questions
1. What apprehension does Fife face as he parks in front of a pharmacy in his hometown?
2. When Fife is asked about Joan Baez and Malcolm comments, “That’s a heartbreaker, man” (130), to what does Fife note the comment refers?
3. What does Fife muse that the film crew will gain from their project?
4. What causes Fife to come to a sudden stop as he drives out of Boston?
5. Why does Malcolm note he means to keep in his film Fife’s narration about dropping out of college?
6. How does Malcolm note Fife’s filming of Joan Baez and others at her headline event differs from other depictions?
7. With what interviewing technique does Malcolm credit Fife?
8. What comments are made regarding Fife’s dormitory room in his first collegiate attempt?
9. What items does Fife note having in his briefcase in Boston after being separated from his luggage?
10. What does Fife note is his common public image?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Does the epigraph from Pessoa connect to the novel? If so, how so? If not, what purpose might it serve, and how might it serve it?
Essay Topic 2
Throughout the novel, there is a dearth of quotation marks used to indicate what words are speech. What is typically used, instead, and how? What effect does the difference have on the reading? How does the effect manifest?
Essay Topic 3
Consider the following: “Fife asks Sloan if she can imagine believing […] that she’s already ruined her life. He means destroyed her future, shut off all possibilities of ever realizing the American dream, or the Canadian dream, although he doesn’t think there actually is a Canadian Dream” (57). Does the novel bear out the last assertion, that there is no Canadian dream? How or how not?
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