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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 do the letters to Britain say about the King?

2. What does Anna threaten to do in the fourth scene if she does not get her promised home?

3. Who is Anna told should bring up the subject of Britain when she speaks with the King?

4. Anna tells the children the world is what?

5. Who is Lady Thiang?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tuptim tell Lady Thiang she is doing when she is caught leaving the palace before the play?

2. What does the King sense in Chulalongkorn in the last scene, and what does he ask of him?

3. What does Anna say when the King refuses to give her the house she has been promised?

4. What does the King write to Anna in a letter, and how does she respond to this?

5. What happens while Tuptim and Lun Tha are singing?

6. What does the King want to send Lincoln, and why?

7. What does Lun Tha tell Tuptim after Lady Thiang returns to the theater?

8. Who has been assigned to help Anna teach, and what do they get in return?

9. What does Lady Thaing call Anna, and why?

10. What is the central theme of all of Anna's first lessons?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Despair is a theme that is used in a number of sensitive places in this plot. What are some of these places, and what role does despair play in this book?

Essay Topic 2

What role does symbolism play in the story and where does it appear? How is the plot altered by the presence of these symbols?

Essay Topic 3

This book takes place in a few different settings. Describe some of these settings and how they affect the course of the plot. Why might the authors have chosen these particular places for this plot to take place?

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