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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 do the men in a Jeep do?
2. How does Mary Praise begin to feel towards Dr. Stone?
3. How long is Mary Dr. Stone's surgical assistant before she goes into labor to deliver a child?
4. Who decides to take the twins?
5. What happens when Mary goes into labor, having hid her pregnancy?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Mary end up at Missing Hospital?
2. What devastates Mary about the boat trip, and what does Dr. Stone ask her when they reach Addis Ababa? What is Mary's response to his question?
3. What does Hema do with Mary, and what does she find out is the problem?
4. What does Hema do about Shiva not talking, what angers Marion and what does he yell at her?
5. How does Sister Mary care for Dr. Stone, and what happens while she takes care of him?
6. How does Dr. Stone find out Mary is pregnant?
7. Why are Sister Mary and Anjali on a boat,and what happens to some of the people on the boat?
8. What happens when Dr. Stone is close to death?
9. What is Ghosh doing while Hema is with Mary and Dr. Stone, and how does he find out about Mary's death?
10. What happens to Dr. Stone after Mary's death?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Characters are an important part of what makes "Cutting for Stone" interesting. Discuss the following:
1. Thoroughly discuss and analyze Marion. What are his strengths? His weaknesses? How does he contribute to the plot? Is he a sympathetic character? Is he always likable? Never likable? Use specific examples to illustrate your ideas.
2. Thoroughly discuss and analyze the character of Genet. What are her strengths? Her weaknesses? How does she contribute to the plot? Is she a sympathetic character? Is she ever likable? Never likable? Use specific examples to illustrate your ideas.
3. Thoroughly discuss and analyze the character of Shiva. What are his strengths? His weaknesses? How does he contribute to the plot? Is he a sympathetic character? Is he ever likable? Never likable? Use specific examples to illustrate your ideas.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss one of the following:
1. Trace and analyze the theme of growth in "Cutting for Stone". 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 "Cutting for Stone". Which characters struggle with this issue? Why? Which characters seem to possess courage? Why?
3. Trace and analyze the theme of death in "Cutting for Stone". Consider the death of Mike as an random act of nature, and the death of Luis as the result of conscious violence. Consider also in your answer the death of innocence in Rick from the beginning of the book to the end.
Essay Topic 3
Over the course of "Cutting for Stone", Marion grows as a person in both complexity and understanding. "Cutting for Stone" might be considered a slice of Marion's larger story of his "coming of age." It might be said that the story is a "bildungsroman" of Marion. Discuss the following:
1. Define Bildungsroman, or "Coming of Age," and give several examples from literature you have read.
2. Trace and analyze the character of Marion as he changes from a more carefree, innocent boy to a wiser, young man. What are the significant events that change Marion?
3. After thoroughly analyzing Marion's growth throughout "Cutting for Stone", do you think the book could be considered Marion's Coming of Age story? Why or why not?
4. Are there any other characters in "Cutting for Stone" who go through a Coming of Age experience? Who? Why do you think so?
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