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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 precipitates Manfred's father's death?
2. What does the man do after the pastor took this action?
3. What is Hanna's father's new girlfriend like?
4. Why is a search organized in the town?
5. Whose arrival in town one day affects Hannelore's life?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where does Manfred Weiler's family live?
2. Who is Veronika and why does she eat all the pastries that Hanna's mother serves?
3. Why does a painter paint over Anton's bedroom window?
4. What does Hanna do at the river when she is upset at her father?
5. How does Rolf learn about his father?
6. What happens to a young couple who are in their car and who do the townspeople think is responsible?
7. What does Manfred's father do with the money and then what does he ask his wife when he returns home?
8. Who is Anton Immers?
9. What upsets Hanna about her father after her mother died and where does she go to get away from the situation?
10. How does Rolf feel and what does he do about what Hanna tells him?
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
In Baby Mansion, the reader learns that Hanna was once inappropriately touched by the local bike store owner and that this man made his own granddaughter pregnant with his child. This also follows with the theme of danger. However, this also touches the theme of love as Hanna embraces both Karin and her infant daughter, trying in her innocent way to find a way to keep them together but failing.
1. Do you think Hanna's mother handled Hanna's encounter with the bike store owner? Why or why not? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.
2. Do you think if Hanna's mother had said something to Karin's mother it might have saved Karin? Why or why not? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.
3. Discuss the ways in which Hanna demonstrates love in her dealing with Karin and the baby. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss one of the following:
1. Thoroughly analyze how the setting informs the plot in Floating in My Mother's Palm.
2. Trace and analyze one major theme of Floating in My Mother's Palm. How is the theme represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?
3. Trace and analyze two secondary themes of Floating in My Mother's Palm. How are the themes represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?
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