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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 does Tom receive a letter from in this chapter?

2. What do the Franchetti brothers go out to buy?

3. What does Tom tell Marge Dickie gave him in Rome?

4. Whose whereabouts do the police want to know about?

5. Who do Marge and Tom meet for dinner?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does one of the Franchetti brothers jokingly suggest about Dickie?

2. How does Tom fake Dickie's will?

3. Why does Tom think Marge is so friendly to Mr. Greenleaf?

4. Why does Tom love his possessions?

5. How does Tom try to hide that Freddie is dead when he takes him outside?

6. Why do the police want to know where Tom Ripley is ?

7. Why does Marge think that Dickie's signature must have changed?

8. What reason does Tom give for Dickie being despondent?

9. How does Tom raise the police's suspicions?

10. How is being Dickie different from what Tom expected?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In 1999 THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY was made into a film starring Matt Damon. Why do you think the themes and ideas in the book were still relevant 54 years later? How did the filmmakers adapt the themes to fit in with the new environment? How did these changes affect the meaning of the story?

Essay Topic 2

Highsmith writes the THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY in the third person. Why do you think Highsmith chose to write the story in the third person? How do you think the meaning of the story would have changed if Highsmith wrote it in the first person?

Essay Topic 3

How does Tom suffer from being a homosexual in the Fifties? What do you think would happen to Tom if he openly admitted he was gay? How does Partricia Highsmith use the novel to comment on attitudes towards homosexuals in the Fifties?

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