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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. When was Akira born?

2. What time would Akira's mother wake him to play games in the garden when they lived together?

3. Who taught Noah to play the piano?

4. What is the date in Chapter 16?

5. Where does Alice throw a party for Nori in Chapter 16?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the concert like where Nori plays for Hiromoto and his guests?

2. How does Noah court Nori?

3. How does Nori feel at the end of Chapter 12?

4. Where does Nori go after her brother dies and why?

5. What is the drive like to Tokyo in Chapter 9?

6. Who are William and Alice Stafford?

7. Who helps Nori when boys nearly knock her off balance at the festival in Chapter 13?

8. Why will Akira be able to hire back some of the servants they lost in Chapter 13?

9. In Chapter 9, where does Nori find herself in Tokyo and what does she do?

10. What is Hiromoto's house like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Nori is imprisoned in her grandmother’s attic at the beginning of the book. How does Nori long to be free then and throughout the novel? Does she finally gain freedom?

Essay Topic 2

Nori spends seven years after Akira’s death wandering. Why does Alice think Nori has spent that time martyring herself? Has Nori been a martyr? If so, to what?

Essay Topic 3

Will forces himself on Nori. How does Will force himself on Nori? Why does she not protest when he claims her as his own? How does Nori’s immaturity affect her acceptance of the relationship? As she matures, how does her growing maturity give her the courage to break off the relationship?

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