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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 is odd about Herr Doktor?

2. What happens to Marlowe's apartment when he enters and turns on the light?

3. What does Alex throw at Carrera?

4. What does Peterson tell Alex and Joanna will happen now that the parties involved are all dead?

5. What does Alex learn from a contact at his firm?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Peterson do what he did and what theme does it touch upon again?

2. How is the theme of romance explored in Chapters 42-44?

3. How do Alex and Joanna leave London and what happens that surprises Alex? What does this make him suspect?

4. How might a reader respond to what is going on with Alex and what is the evidence to suggest that Alex and Joanna are being manipulated?

5. By Chapter 42, how do you think the reader feels about Thomas Chelgrin. How does the character actually turn out?

6. Who approaches Joanna and Alex immediately in London? What might the reader wonder and what does the person say that alleviates concern?

7. What does Chelgrin know about his daughter and what does he seem to feel about her?

8. What does Inamura use to free Joanna of the compulsion?

9. What is Carrera ordered to do when Joanna leaves Japan? How does he feel about the orders? What does his thoughts evoke in the reader?

10. What does the hypnosis session do in the novel as far as narrative technique is concerned?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the character pairs below to compare and contrast. Include in the essay a comparison of their personalities, their values and morals, how they view the world, what good and bad exist in each that are the same and different and how they behave in the situations in the book.

1. Joanna and Lisa Chelgrin.

2. Joanna and Mariko.

3. Alex and Carrera.

Essay Topic 2

Under further regression, Joanna also reveals that all her memories of Lisa Chelgrin are gone and that she will most likely never recover them. The completeness of this brainwashing should be frightening to the reader, showing how vulnerable Lisa Chelgrin was and how violating Herr Doktor was toward her, both physically and mentally.

1. What do you think is the emotional impact of finding out you are not who you thought you were? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. Discuss in depth the moral and legal implications of what Herr Doktor did to Lisa. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

3. It would be one thing to find out you were a different person than you thought you were. What would be the farther impact on Lisa of finding out that not only was she a different person than she thought but that her early memories are completely gone so she'll never know exactly who she was?

Essay Topic 3

Alex realizes he has seen Joanna before. She was a kidnap case he worked on. The chances that Alex would end up in the city where this woman has been hiding out for twelve years seems to be astronomical, tipping the reader off to the idea that something may be at work here that is not completely clear at this point.

1. Do you think Alex ending up in a city half way across the world and walking into a lounge where the singer is the woman he had looked for ten years earlier is a stretch of the imagination? Why or why not?

2. After researching narrative contrivance explain, with examples of why you think the above situation may or may not be one.

3. Discuss a remarkable coincidence that has occurred in your life, in the life of someone you knew or one that you heard or read about. Include in your discussion why it might illustrate the saying: "Life is stranger than fiction."

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