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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 is the title of the first poem in "Elitere: Lyric Poetry"?
2. What does the speaker compare memory to in 'Retour'?
3. How is the audience of the film in "Erato: Love Poetry" given the portrait of the woman?
4. For the speaker in "Terpischore: Choral Dance," which of the following cannot happen?
5. According to the list in "Polymnia: Sacred Poetry," what is Tai-Chi?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the woman's relationship with the person on the telephone in "Thalia: Comedy."
2. Discuss the significance of cinema scene in the opening of "Erato: Love Poetry."
3. Discuss the opening lines of "Terpischore: Choral Dance." What is the general impression you gain from these lines? ("You remain dismembered...apart from the congregation.")
4. Discuss the passage titled "Memory." Why does it receive a capitalized title?
5. How does speech relate to memory in "Elitere: Lyric Poetry"?
6. Examine the imagery of the veil in "Elitere: Lyric Poetry."
7. Why is the young girl at the well in "Polymnia: Sacred Poetry"?
8. Why does Cha include the second, handwritten, letter to Mrs. Laura Claxton?
9. What is the significance of the series of concentric circles in "Polymnia: Sacred Poetry"?
10. Discuss the ending of the work. Why does it end with a child looking out a window?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Cha's Dictee centers on women in every section. Explore the myriad, often contradictory, roles of women in the work. Compare their roles across various cultures and time frames. How does their role change in these various settings? How does it remain the same? Why does Cha focus almost exclusively on women?
Essay Topic 2
Memory plays a significant role throughout Cha's Dictee. In fact, it could be argued the work itself is an act of memory or perhaps a memorial of sorts. Explore the way memory shapes both form and content in this work. Is it a celebration of memory? Or perhaps a mourning of things and persons lost? Or is it perhaps both at once?
Essay Topic 3
Cha plays with notions of space and place a great deal in this novel. She incorporates concrete locations--Manchuria, Seoul, Hawaii--as well as undefined spaces--the theater-like space, the village, the church. How does this play with space influence the work? Do we see multiple conceptions of space working together? Are there different epistemic constructions working simultaneously in this work? If so, how do these systems work together to strengthen Cha's work? If not, what is Cha doing with space in the work?
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