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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 his mother also tell him?

2. Why does Raymond's mother drug herself?

3. In the midst of what do they celebrate?

4. When does Marco enter the box?

5. What does Raymond's mother ask Jocie's father?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Raymond do to Jocie?

2. How does the scene begin, prior to the shooting?

3. What has taken place between Raymond and Jocie's father?

4. How does Jocie interfere with Raymond's programming?

5. What does Jocie say about Raymond?

6. Of what does Raymond's column consist?

7. What do Raymond and Jocie do?

8. What does Marco have Rosie do?

9. What is Raymond's costume? What does he think about it?

10. What takes place when Marco and the G-men meet Raymond in Hungarian Charlie's?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Shaw's mother is a dominating character.

Part 1) How is she a dominating character? Why is she so controlling? How does she affect the lives of those around her?

Part 2) When does she lose some of this control? Why? What does this reveal about her?

Part 3) How does her personality play into the hands of the Communists?

Essay Topic 2

Several flashbacks take place.

Part 1) Describe these flashbacks. What purpose do they serve?

Part 2) How does the reader learn about the various characters from these flashbacks?

Part 3) Do these flashbacks enhance the story? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Rosie is Marco's girlfriend.

Part 1) How do they meet? How does he act in front of her? How does she react? Why?

Part 2) Can Rosie be trusted? Why or why not?

Part 3) How is this relationship connected to the theme of the love of a good woman?

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