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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. About what does Siegfried start feeling better?
2. What does Siegfried begin doing in the evenings?
3. Why does Oma ask to go to the hospital?
4. Where does Siegfried live?
5. How does Hanna's father meet Hanna's mother?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do the townspeople say is the source of Trudi's dwarfism?
2. What happens when Hanna's baby brother is born?
3. Describe the narrator of these stories.
4. How is Trudi treated as a child?
5. How is Oma healed of the second blood clot?
6. Describe Klara's romance with an American soldier.
7. What is wrong with Renate's leg and why and how does Hanna try to fix it?
8. What does Trudi call Hanna's father's actions concerning his marriage and what does Hanna think about that?
9. Why does Oma go back to the hospital one day?
10. What does the narrator's mother learn when she returns to the convent after starting labor?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Often, authors will write about "what they know," and sometimes knowing a little about the author makes the books more interesting. Discuss the following:
1. Research and give a brief biographical sketch of Ursula Hegi.
2. What in Hegi's background may have helped her in writing Floating in My Mother's Palm? What may have influenced the way she depicts various characters and scenes?
3. Do you think there is always some of the author's own life in his/her novels? Why or why not? Give examples.
Essay Topic 2
Titles often play a vital role in making a person decide to read a particular book. Discuss the following:
1. Fully explain why you think Floating in My Mother's Palm is titled as such. Do you think it is the best title for the book? Why or why not? Can you think of a better title? Why would you choose it?
2. How important is a title in influencing you to consider reading a book? Explain your answer.
3. Do you think a title needs to have direct relevance to a book's content? Explain your answer.
4. Have you ever read a book that when you finished, you do not understand the relevance of the title? Does it discourage you from "trusting" that particular author again?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the following:
1. What is a plot? What are the most important elements of a plot and their definition? Do all novels have a plot? Why or why not?
2. Write a brief synopsis of the plot of Floating in My Mother's Palm, identifying where the various elements of the plot occur (Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution or denouement). Do you find it difficult to identify the plot? Why or why not? What about the various elements of the plot?
3. Identify the major sub-plots and their elements in Floating in My Mother's Palm. (The subplots may not contain every element of a major plot). Do the sub-plots add to the main plot? Why or why not. Are the sub-plots interesting in and of themselves? Why or why not?
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