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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. How does Hanna's mother decide to help Oma?
2. Why does Hanna take holy water to Renate?
3. How is Trudi treated in her childhood?
4. What does Klara tell her lover one day?
5. When do Hanna and her mother go off to swim?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the narrator of these stories.
2. What does Trudi call Hanna's father's actions concerning his marriage and what does Hanna think about that?
3. Describe Hanna's father.
4. What do many people believe is the cause of Trudi becoming an old maid?
5. How does Siegfried ultimately die?
6. What do the townspeople say is the source of Trudi's dwarfism?
7. What happens to Hanna's paternal grandmother and how does she cope?
8. How did Trudi's mother dropping her supposedly affect her?
9. What does Siegfried do as a result of the dream and why does he do so?
10. Who does Hanna befriend?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Characters are an important part of what makes Floating in My Mother's Palm interesting. Discuss the following:
1. Thoroughly discuss and analyze Hanna. 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.
2. Thoroughly discuss and analyze the character of Hanna's mother. 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 Hanna's father. 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 Floating in My Mother's Palm. 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 love in Floating in My Mother's Palm. Which characters struggle with this issue? Why? Which characters seem to possess courage? Why?
3. Trace and analyze the theme of death in Floating in My Mother's Palm.
Essay Topic 3
Floating in My Mother's Palm belongs to the general fiction genre. Discuss the following:
1. Define the literary term "genre" and give several examples of three other genres in addition to the general fiction genre.
2. Discuss two reasons why it might be useful to label a text by genre and two reasons it might be disadvantageous to label a text by genre.
3. What do you think is the difference between a general fiction novel and a mystery?
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