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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 kinds of people does Billy meet in Rome?
2. Describe what first happens when everyone enters the flat.
3. A few months after Frederick's death, when Annabel reflects on what has happened, what does she think?
4. Which of Annabel's neighbors is considered the most important?
5. How do some critics describe "The House on the Piazza?"
Short Essay Questions
1. One afternoon as Annabel is waiting for Frederick, Billy O'Brien lets himself in with the key that Frederick had given to him. Billy is rude and arrogant and demands food, which Annabel prepares. Billy says that Frederick has threatened suicide and Annabel says he has done the same with her. Should they have taken his threats more seriously?
2. Annabel's film company was worried about the couple's divorcing at what could be the wrong time, such as the release of a new picture. How did Annabel decide to save her marriage?
3. When Billy showed up unexpectedly at the party that Annabel had known nothing about, who did he bring with him?
4. In Chapter IV, when Annabel is taken to view the body, the doctors and nurses who escort her being to speak rapidly in Italian and she realizes they are trying to console her. How does she react?
5. The last guest to come to Annabel's flat was Dr.Tommasi. Why was he there and how did Annabel receive the news he came to deliver?
6. What was the difference between the way that Annabel and Frederick viewed acting?
7. Until quite recently, how would people have described Annabel's physical appearance?
8. Frederick and Anabel had a secret life in their minds, a life unknown to one another. What was this secret life?
9. Annabel made a second film and then she was to make a next film. Rumors were that Frederick was to play a leading role. What actually happened to Frederick?
10. Frederick, always keeping in the back of his mind the idea of leaving Annabel, had taken a mistress and in Chapter III, we learn that he is constantly going away. How is Annabel managing her private life?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What exactly is meant by a public image and how is it achieved? How did having a public image affect the lives of Annabel and Frederick? Without their public images, how different do you think Annabel and Frederick's lives would have been?
Essay Topic 2
Frederick's party, planned to take place at the time of his self destruction, is mind boggling. Discuss Frederick's personality and his state of mind. Was he crazy or totally self absorbed?
Essay Topic 3
Sometimes, when we finish a book, we are dissatisfied with the ending. Would you change the ending of the Public Image? How would you change it?
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