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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 was the name of John's wife?

2. One Christmas, how many nights did Albert and Sydney spend at the Breckenridges' home?

3. The night of the party, who was pulling a double in the lobby of the Apelles?

4. Where did John say that Cynthia Mellins was living in 1978?

5. What did Albert hit when he drove the cab to the Apelles?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who did John and Erwin see in the lobby of the hospital when they arrived?

2. What did John Caldwell do when Vik followed him after he left the YMCA?

3. How did Vik spend the day of the blizzard?

4. Where was Vikram Patel when John left the YMCA?

5. How did Manny remember that a man named Lieutenant Spitz died when he was in Vietnam?

6. How was the snow described in Part 3, Chapter 16?

7. How did Sal Fumoso run films at the decommissioned Penn Yards YMCA?

8. Why did John have to walk to the hospital to try to find his father?

9. How had John struggled in diction class at Julliard?

10. Who did Manny and Erwin see coming toward the apartment building in the storm?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Imagery is a literary device authors use to describe something using the five senses to help readers experience what a character is experiencing. How does the author use imagery to help readers imagine the world he has created?

Essay Topic 2

Artistic license is the way that an author creates, art, music, or writing based upon his interpretation of life. How does the author use artistic license to make the novel seem like the events actually happened and the characters are real people?

Essay Topic 3

John’s son drowned in a swimming pool. Why do John and Albert blame themselves and feel guilty for the death of the boy?

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