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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 does Rachel say she will do if eligible for temporary release in Chapter 18?
2. Where does Rachel meet Ruth?
3. Why do Rachel and others go to the highest point on the Kalaupapa Peninsula?
4. Lani dies of __________.
5. What illness does Henry mistake for leprosy in Chapter 15?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Ruth want to know when Rachel first contacts her? How does Ruth react to Rachel's explanation?
2. What event seems to aggravate Crossen's anger in Chapter 19? On the night that Kenji dies, why did he go over to Crossen's home?
3. How does Rachel react to the news of her pregnancy?
4. What documents does Rachel set about obtaining in Chapter 21?
5. At the end of the novel, what are the residents of Kalaupapa worried about?
6. Why do the patients at the Leprosy Investigation Station leave one by one?
7. In what year does the Endnote take place? Why have Ruth and her daughter travelled to Kalaupapa?
8. How does Crossen think he got leprosy? Who is he full of hate for as a result?
9. What difficulty does Rachel have once she arrives in Honolulu?
10. Where does Rachel volunteer to go after her leprosy test comes back positive in Chapter 14?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the motif of discrimination. How is Rachel discriminated? Why is she discriminated against? How does the social stigma attached to leprosy affect Rachel's life?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the motif of escape. Why does Rachel yearn to escape her life? How does she go about doing so? How is she finally able to escape Moloka'i? How does she feel once she has left?
Essay Topic 3
Analyze and interpret the protagonist of the novel, Rachel Kalama. What are Rachel's defining character traits? Whom is she close to in the novel? What happens to Rachel throughout the novel?
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