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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. Which word best describes the rhythm of "Terpischore: Choral Dance"?
2. What seems to cool the approaching young girl in "Polymnia: Sacred Poetry"?
3. What color are the subtitles that appear on the screen in "Erato: Love Poetry"?
4. Why are the tongue and words dead in "Elitere: Lyric Poetry"?
5. How is the young girl to serve the medicines she receives from the woman in "Polymnia: Sacred Poetry"?
Short Essay Questions
1. Discuss the narrator's treatment of memory in "Elitere: Lyric Poetry."
2. Discuss at least two possible meanings of the partition imagery which appears in "Elitere: Lyric Poetry."
3. Identify one central symbol of "Terpischore: Choral Dance" and discuss its relevance.
4. 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.")
5. Describe the rhythm of "Terpischore: Choral Dance."
6. Describe the earth in "Terpischore: Choral Dance."
7. What does the woman give to the young girl in "Polymnia: Sacred Poetry"?
8. Discuss the ending of "Terpischore: Choral Dance." What sentiment do the closing lines leave you with?
9. Describe the contents of the chart in "Polymnia: Sacred Poetry."
10. Describe the wife's relationship with her husband in "Erato: Love Poetry."
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Much of Cha's text deals with the experience of being a Korean-American woman in the period following the Korean War. How does she treat this experience? How does she comment on her place and/or reception within U.S. American culture? Is she nostalgic for Korea? Proud to be an American? Both? Support your answer with evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 2
Religion is a theme that pervades the work in several forms. How does Cha's narrator treat religion? What does Cha have to say about the uses (or perhaps abuses) of religion in Korean and Korean-American culture? Consider the nun's relationship to the Church, as well as the religious rituals and lessons, which appear throughout the work in forming your answer.
Essay Topic 3
Explore Cha's commentary on tradition in the work. Tradition is lost, regained, and preserved in the work. How important is tradition to Cha's work? How do the themes of oppression, exile, displacement, and fragmentation affect Cha's vision of tradition? Is her work perhaps an act of preserving tradition in itself? Why or why not?
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