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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. Whom did Jasmine stay with at the hotel?

2. What type of pin does Du give Jasmine?

3. Whose wedding sari did Jasmine wear for her wedding?

4. In villages close to the border, what is an acceptable profession?

5. Who collects pieces of aluminum foil?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Jasmine returns to the family home, what does she enlist her brothers to help her do?

2. How does Jasmine's idea of "dull" differ from Taylor's?

3. In the story why does Jasmine hoard water and who are the other two people that hoard and why?

4. How did Jasmine become a widow?

5. Why does Jasmine call Karin after Taylor and Duff arrive?

6. What happened to Jasmine and the Ugandan man?

7. What is the great battle between Dida and Mataji?

8. What did the letters Masterji read to his students reveal about American farmers?

9. In Chapter 5, what experience does Jasmine recall, that clarifies what she does not want to become?

10. Who are Taylor and Wylie?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jasmine, Du and Mother Ripplemeyer all hoard things. What does each hoard and why?

Essay Topic 2

Jasmine says that she became an American while living with the Hayes family. Explain and give examples of this transformation.

Essay Topic 3

Jasmine watches her son. In his actions and in some of the things he says, Jasmine thinks of Du as the kind of son she would have had with her husband. Why do Jasmine's thoughts go this way and what are some things that Du says and does to support her thoughts?

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