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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 of the following is the subject of Fife’s doctoral dissertaton?
2. Which of the following languages does Fife speak?
3. Which of the following flights does Fife take from Washington to Boston?
4. Which of the following schools is Alicia reported to have attended?
5. Fife’s comment that “he’s one of those exploratory robotic spacecraft that somehow slip past the gravitational fields of all nine planets in the solar system and never orbit or crash into anything, and eventually they sail out of the solar system, blown by the solar wind beyond the heliosphere into deep space” (71) offers an example of which of the following?
Short Essay Questions
1. What distinction does the novel make between immigrants and refugees?
2. What reasons does Fife give for wanting to escape life with Amy in Boston?
3. What reasons does Fife give for appreciating the sounds of jet engines from inside the plane?
4. How does Amanda surprise Fife when she returns to her living room before their first assignation?
5. What reasons does Fife give for being able to confess?
6. What technique does Fife use to overcome panic aboard the plane?
7. What idea does Fife advance in his colonial American literature class, and why is it flawed?
8. How is the weather on the day of the interview described?
9. What advice does Emma have for Malcolm concerning the lucidity of Fife’s narration?
10. How is Vincent described as he is introduced?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
It is noted that “Leonard Fife claimed to be a refugee” (12). Does the novel bear out that claim? How or how not?
Essay Topic 2
Fife comments to Emma that “a countless number of times throughout his live, his reality seems to have been little more than the refracted pressures of his needs. Those are his exact words, carefully chosen, sharply articulated: the refracted pressures of his needs” (115). What might Fife mean by the phrase? How does the novel bear out that meaning?
Essay Topic 3
In the novel, some characters are given full names; others are given only one name, or none. What is signified by the relative number of names, and how is the significance presented?
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