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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. Where has Bee been?
2. Where does Babette like to run?
3. How old is Heinrich?
4. Jack finds Wilder watching Heinrich do a science experiment with what objects?
5. What, according to Tweedy, is "the last refuge of gracious living"?
Short Essay Questions
1. Characterize Heinrich in terms of the discussion about the rain he has with Jack. What does DeLillo want us to understand about him?
2. What is Jack's position at the college?
3. Describe the student body of the College-on-the-Hill.
4. What is the conflict between Babette and Denise, vis-a-vis sugarless gum?
5. What does Babette look like?
6. Jack opens up Chapter 20 by listing various people's deaths and talking about how they died. Name one of them, and describe why you think Jack is listing them.
7. Why does Murray come over to watch television with the kids?
8. What does Bee claim about the conflict between her mother and stepfather?
9. What is so shocking about Jack's trouble with German?
10. Why do they bring Wilder to the doctor in Chapter 16?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Although many of the characters are unusual, Heinrich is one of the stranger characters. As a fourteen year old with a receding hairline, is he a good representation of the average American teenager? What are the things about Heinrich that you recognize in your peers and yourself? What things about him are different? Would you want to be friends with him, why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
These characters are preoccupied, and maybe even obsessed, with their own deaths. Compare and contrast Jack's obsession with his mortality and Babette's obsession with hers. Write an essay that details the ways their fear of death are similar and how they are different. Be sure to describe specific instances in the novel and how the reader comes to understand each.
Essay Topic 3
Compare and contrast Jack's wives. Write an essay that describes Dana, Janet, Tweedy and Babette in turn, and explains the ways in which they are similar or different. Why did Jack want to marry them? What caused conflicts in their marriages? What does this show readers about Jack?
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