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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 long did Richard take piano lessons as a child before he could listen to himself and know he was playing music?
2. How many euros are the refugees given for a transit pass?
3. What hours did the man with the broom work in a yam field?
4. When Rashid spends Christmas with Richard, how long has it been since his wife divorced him?
5. How many Soviet soldiers died trying to liberate Berlin?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Richard by Osarobo for Christmas, and how does Richard think it might be useful?
2. What is the room like where Richard has a piano, and how has the room been used over the years?
3. Where is it thought that the ancestors of the Tuareg came from?
4. Why does it seem like Richard can smell freshly washed clothes when hears Bach's Inventions on the radio?
5. What happened to Rashid's wife?
6. How do the refugees use their phones?
7. Why does Richard walk Osarobo back to the old nursing home after Osarobo spends time playing Richard's piano?
8. What police presence is at Spandau when 12 men are to be moved?
9. What are Richard's friends doing for Christmas?
10. How did Rashid get sent on a boat with his children?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in Go, Went, Gone? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and characters? How does it help readers connect with and understand characters or events?
Essay Topic 2
Richard has viewed the world through an Eurocentric lens. What is a Eurocentric lens, and how does his understanding of the world transform in Go, Went, Gone and why?
Essay Topic 3
The refugees are not allowed to work in Germany. Why is it ironic that the refugees are not allowed to work in Germany?
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