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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 name did Peter give Meunier's as a reference?
2. What do they all do once the policeman leaves Peter's house?
3. What does Julian decide that he needs in order to secure his future?
4. Whose painting does Mad Mitch and Peter recreate in the contest?
5. What does Dee want to write her thesis about?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Julian visit Samantha yet again and what does he observe about her and Tom?
2. Why does Julian steal and sell his wife's car?
3. What party do Samantha and Tom attend and what crucial event happens there?
4. How does the reader know right away that Tom is going to be trouble for Samantha?
5. After leaving Dee's apartment, where does Lipsey trace her to and what does he discover there?
6. Why does Peter Usher become so upset with Charles Lampeth at the reception?
7. What news does Samantha give the reporter James Whitewood that startles him? What does he do with the information?
8. What contest do Peter and Mitch have and why? What comes out of the contest?
9. Who is Modigliani and what significance does he have to the story?
10. What does Julian find when he returns home from selling Sarah's car, and how does he use it to his advantage?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Peter states one of the major themes of the novel when he calls the newspaper to demand an inexpensive place for artists to sell their work. Charles comments to Willow about the demand and its lack of permanence on the art dealer. What is Follett telling the reader in regards to profit versus what is due to the artist?
Essay Topic 2
How is Tom a villain? Analyze the nature of Tom's villainy and show how it enhances the meaning of the work.
Essay Topic 3
How are the titles of the chapters metaphors?
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