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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. Who arrives and hits the person at Drenka's grave while Sabbath watches?

2. What does Sabbath think Roseanna uses as an excuse to delay leaving him?

3. Why did Sabbath stop directing?

4. Why does Sabbath think that Drenka is not attracted to her husband?

5. What happened when Scott Lewis got a prostitute for Drenka?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the spirit of Sabbath's mother say to him at the end of Part 4?

2. What role did Roseanna play in Sabbath's puppet theater?

3. How did Nikki handle her mother's death?

4. Why does Sabbath live off of Roseanna's salary?

5. What happened between Sabbath, Drenka, and Christa?

6. What are some of the reasons that are detailed in Part 3 about Sabbath and his wife "hating" one another?

7. Why does Norman Cowan call Sabbath at the beginning of Part 3?

8. What caused Matija to end his encounter with Sabbath abruptly, but politely?

9. What was the "Romance Run"?

10. At the end of Part 2, who does Sabbath encounter at Drenka's grave?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Does Sabbath show any personal growth through the course of the novel? Does he change or mature in any way? If so, what is it? If not, why? Is he a sympathetic character? Why or why not? In what ways does Sabbath choose his own fate? Be sure to cite specific examples from the text to support your thesis.

Essay Topic 2

Christa and Drenka are both in similar situations when Sabbath meets them. What enables Sabbath to take advantage of them? How does each woman react to Sabbath? Why do they react differently? What makes them both attractive to Sabbath? Be sure to cite specific examples from the text to support your thesis.

Essay Topic 3

The letters that Sabbath finds in the box of Morty's personal possessions mirror the ones that Roseanna's father had written to her before his suicide. What are some of the similarities between those two sets of letters? What are the significant differences? How is the manner in which Sabbath treats his brother's letters different from the way in which he treats the letters that were written by Roseanna's father? Be sure to cite specific examples from the text to support your thesis.

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