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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. With what do they patch the hole with at the bottom of the boat?

2. What does the male narrator say are the only newborn babies he has ever seen?

3. Who says, "I see you crying like a crushed snail, the way you cried when I helped you pull out your first tooth?"

4. Who says, "Maybe we will go to Guinin, to live with the spirits, to be with everyone who has come and has died before us?"

5. Who says, "Maybe the world is flat and we are going to find out, like the navigators of old?"

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the female narrator's father say about self-preservation that disturbs Manman?

2. What happens during the female narrator's trip to Ville Rose?

3. What apology does the narrator's father give to her after their fight? Does it work?

4. Describe Celianne.

5. Who is Madan Roger? What happens to her?

6. What obstacle must the female narrator's family overcome before they can leave the city? How do they fix this? How does this blur the lines of good/evil and friends/enemies in the narrative?

7. How does Madan Roger's behavior differ from that of the female narrator's family?

8. Describe the relationship between Manman and the female narrator.

9. What does the male narrator ask of his girlfriend? What does this tell us about him?

10. Describe the male narrator's interaction with the old man on the boat.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Think about Celianne's story. Why won't she let go of the baby? When she does, why does she jump as well? How does her story contrast with that of the female narrator?

Essay Topic 2

Think about the two narrators' surroundings. What do their descriptions of the sea and the mountains foreshadow in the story? What does this tell us about their relationship?

Essay Topic 3

How is the sea personified in the story? What do the narrators descriptions of the sea tell us about the narrator himself? How does this contrast with the female narrator's descriptions of the mountains?

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