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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. During the summer after Willem's brother's death, Willem works at what type of establishment?
2. With what type of event do Harold, Julia, Jude, and their friends celebrate Judes' adoption?
3. Who writes Willem a check so that he can travel home to see Hemming?
4. Which character is the only person Jude will allow to provide him with medical care?
5. Who recalls Jude coming to college with only a single backpack in tow?
Short Essay Questions
1. In what way is foreshadowing included in relation to Jude's future?
2. What is the occasion of the opening scene in A Little Life?
3. Discuss a quality that Jude has in common with either Malcolm or JB.
4. What is the significance of the title for Part II, "The Postman" (210)?
5. What does Willem say in the opening scene when he is asked about his parents and why is it significant?
6. Discuss a time when Yanigihara uses a metaphor to represent some aspect of friendship.
7. What impetus prompts Malcolm to come out to his parents?
8. How does the theme of deception enter the narrative within the friendship between Willem and Jude?
9. How does Yanigihara want the reader to view Jude's decision to keep his past a secret and how do you know?
10. In what ways does Jude feel out-of-step with the rest of his peers' experiences?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Yanigihara’s reasons for including instances of foreshadowing within the novel and how the use of foreshadowing connects with the narrative’s themes and messages.
Essay Topic 2
How are the topics of romantic relationships, love, and sex treated within the novel A Little Life and how does their treatment relate to the novel's depicted messages?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Yanagihara's choice to tell the story of A Little Life using a third person omniscient narrator. What elements of the novel's themes lend themselves to this choice and what are Yanagihara’s intended effects on the reader?
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