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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 color sofa is in Danny's room?

2. What did Cousin Kannan eat when he sailed with a gang of people smugglers?

3. How many teams of Nepalis will clean for the same price that Danny charges?

4. How much did Danny pay a barber to color his hair gold?

5. How much did Prakash once make from a $7 bet?

Short Essay Questions

1. What message does Danny keep getting from his phone company?

2. What can be purchased at the 24-hour convenience store on page 48?

3. How does a woman named Sam help Danny after he removed her cacti?

4. What competition does Danny face in his line of work?

5. What does the narrator say about getting something to drink in Sydney?

6. What happened once when Danny was cleaning House Number Nine in Ashfield?

7. What does Danny remember about cleaning Radha's place for the first time?

8. Why is there a blue mist on page 9?

9. What does Danny tell Prakash when he calls him at 11:11 a.m.?

10. What beliefs does Sonja have?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Radha is murdered. Who was Radha? What was her relationship with Danny? How would you describe the type of person that she was?

Essay Topic 2

Danny went to Australia on a student visa. What did it cost Danny to go to Mackenzie College? How did the college make students work? How long might it take to get a certificate? Was the college a scam?

Essay Topic 3

Conflicts between characters are often caused by a problem. What are some conflicts that occur in the novel? Are the conflicts in the book mostly man vs. man, man vs. nature, or man vs. self? Are they internal or external conflicts?

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