View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book contains the only photograph of Lonoff?
(a) When She Was Good.
(b) Higher Education.
(c) The Ghost Writer.
(d) It's your Funeral.

2. How long is Nathan's short story that he references in Chapter 2?
(a) 15,000 words.
(b) 20,000 words.
(c) 15,000 pages.
(d) 10,00 words.

3. Where does Amy work?
(a) The Stanford library.
(b) The Harvard library.
(c) The Athene library.
(d) The Library of Congress.

4. What publication writes a blurb about Nathan?
(a) Saturday Review.
(b) Saturday Evening Post.
(c) New York Times.
(d) New York Post.

5. Who writes a letter to Nathan at Quahsay?
(a) Amy.
(b) Judge Wapter.
(c) Hope Lonoff.
(d) His mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nathan's father say people read about instead of reading art?

2. How is Nathan getting to New York from his parents' house?

3. How many drafts of one short story does Amy find?

4. What do the college boys call the overseer?

5. What battleship was Sidney on, according to Nathan's story?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Zuckerman skeptical of the party-goers' analysis of Lonoff?

2. How does Zuckerman convince Lonoff to meet with him?

3. How does Zuckerman react to the decor in Lonoff's home?

4. What response does Zuckerman get when he mentions Lonoff's name at a publishing party?

5. Why does Zuckerman's father say everyone stopped by on the Sunday Zuckerman was home before leaving for Quahsay?

6. How does the trouble between Zuckerman and his father begin, according to Zuckerman in Chapter 2?

7. What does Zuckerman tell Lonoff when he asks Zuckerman about his life in Chapter 1?

8. Why does Lonoff ask Zuckerman to call him Manny?

9. Why does Zuckerman say he stays up in Lonoff's study?

10. Why does Zuckerman begin writing a letter to his father as he sits in Lonoff's study?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 780 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample