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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. What does Harry do after his wife, Mary, confronts him about never being home lately?

2. Where does Harry work?

3. Who waits behind to try to have a turn having sex with Tralala?

4. How does Mike respond to his wife's request to purchase some groceries?

5. At the nice bars, what does Tralala say about the Officer's "dames"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Lucy embarrassed to tell the laundromat manager that her kids poured too much soup into the washing machine?

2. Why does the doggie return to the Greek diner to see Tralala?

3. Why does Harry eventually have to talk to Mr. Harrington, his manager?

4. At the beginning of Part V, what does Harry Black do to his son?

5. When the Officer has to leave, what does he give Tralala as a parting gift?

6. What happens to Harry and Joey at the end of Part V?

7. What does Ada notice in Coda as she wakes up in the morning?

8. What is Harry's role once the workers at the steel factory decide to go on strike?

9. How does the narrator describe how Tralala views sex?

10. What does Mary, Harry's wife, believe is the reason her husband is upset?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay analyzing and describing Brooklyn as described through the characters' perspectives in the novel. How do the characters' relationships with each other help define what Brooklyn represents?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay analyzing Georgette's relationship with Vinnie. What is the basis of their relationship? Why do the men who hang out at the Greek diner, including Vinnie, simultaneously harass yet admire Georgette?

Essay Topic 3

Why do you think the author chose to write about gender and sexuality in Last Exit to Brooklyn? What connections during the time at which the novel was written might he be making?

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