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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. How does Charlotte become pregnant?
2. What has the narrator just done three years in the future after finding his temporary home?
3. Why does the narrator lie to Pashka?
4. What confuses the narrator about Beria?
5. Who is Mr. Bond?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the narrator do about three years after staying in the tombs and why was it difficult to do? How did he overcome the difficulty?
2. What does the narrator feel when he is staying in the tombs and what symptoms did he think he had?
3. Why does the narrator not call or write Charlotte after he finds her and what does he do while waiting to see her?
4. Who is the only person in the narrator's class who treats him kindly?
5. How does the narrator feel about the women in the photo and how does he try to return to the comfort of his childhood?
6. Why does the narrator hire a private detective?
7. Who does the narrator notice while doing sequences and what does he notice about her?
8. What does the narrator realize concerning his grandmother and France?
9. What story does the narrator relate to Pashka?
10. Why does the narrator think he is being accepted by his classmates, what does he see as the three types of cliques in a crowd and how does his acceptance affect his writing?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the following:
1. What do you think are the characteristics of a successful novel?
2. Analyze and discuss "Dreams of My Russian Summers" based upon the criteria you decide upon in #1 and judge if Dreams of My Russian Summers is a successful novel.
3. Do you think the criteria for a successful novel should be different if it is written for adults versus young adults? Why or why not? Would most adults consider "Dreams of My Russian Summers" a successful novel? What about young teens?
Essay Topic 2
"Dreams of My Russian Summers" belongs to the fictional memoir genre. Discuss the following:
1. Define the literary term "genre" and give several examples of three other genres in addition to the fictional memoir genre.
2. Discuss two reasons why it might be useful to label a text by genre and two reasons it might be disadvantageous to label a text by genre.
3. What do you think is the difference between a fictional memoir and a historical novel?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss one of the following:
1. Trace and analyze the theme of growth in "Dreams of My Russian Summers". Consider the following questions as you write: What characters are most concerned with growth? Why? What are some symbols of growth? Symbols of rigidity? What characters seem rigid?
2. Trace and analyze the theme of courage in "Dreams of My Russian Summers". Which characters struggle with this issue? Why? Which characters seem to possess courage? Why?
3. Trace and analyze the theme of death in "Dreams of My Russian Summers". Consider not only the physical deaths but the death of innocence or the death of ignorance.
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