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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 does Bobby tell Kline that his sister spends her inheritance money on?
2. In the non-italicized section of Chapter 7, after Bobby leaves the agent's office, he thinks about his visit to his sister's mental hospital. What is the name of the mental hospital?
3. Why does Bobby say that he could not kill himself?
4. In Chapter 8, where does Bobby go to work after leaving New Orleans?
5. In the italicized section of Chapter 5, who gives the girl's father the snazzy fountain pen?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who does Bobby meet after talking to the guys in suits again?
2. In Chapter 5, when Bobby meets Sheddan for lunch, at the beginning of their conversation how does Sheddan describe Bobby as an archetypal figure?
3. What happens to Bobby when goes to the jack-up rig?
4. Who shows up in the girl's recovery room? How do they look? What is the girl's response?
5. Why does Bobby go back Wartburg, Tennessee after his conversation with Asher?
6. As a child what does Bobby find in the woods?
7. In the opening of the non-italicized section of Chapter 6, where is Bobby and what is he doing?
8. After Bobby's meeting with the IRS agent, he meets up with Kline. What does Kline say about the shape of his own life and how is that a contrast to Bobby's life?
9. What does the IRS do to Bobby?
10. After recounting his time in Eastern State, why does John say that he is somewhat reluctant about Tulsa being back in his life?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the mystery of the downed plane? Does it get solved to any degree of satisfaction? Why does the author add this element to the story? How does an unsolved mystery with a myriad of loose ends reinforce the theme of disorientation? How do a mystery with no end and no visible linear arc connect to the rest of Bobby's life?
Essay Topic 2
There are guys in suits who question Bobby, and his bank account is frozen by the IRS. How do these elements serve the story? How do they serve the author's intentions for the story? How do they serve to suggest a life that is out of Bobby's control? How do they serve to show ideas of struggle and surrender? How do these ideas relate to the reader's world?
Essay Topic 3
What does this book say about beauty? What does beauty represent in this book? How is beauty connected to reality? How is beauty connected to the deep heart of number which may only exist as unreality or subconscious? How are math and physics related to beauty? Can beauty be detrimental to those who are taken in by it? How so?
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