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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 interested Claudia in the Mayflower?

2. What do the hippos in the zoo eat?

3. What was the name of the church in which 31-year-old Claudia made her prayer?

4. Whom does Sylvia visit in Chapter 3?

5. Why doesn't Lisa tell her mother about her affair?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Claudia's opinion about Sylvia?

2. What makes Sylvia uncomfortable about Gordon's relationship with Claudia and how does she handle it?

3. What is Tom's view of the war, as the reader learns in Chapter 8?

4. What is ironic about Lisa not telling her mother about her affair?

5. How does young Claudia learn where babies come from?

6. What is unique about Claudia's job in Cairo?

7. Which country will play a central role in Claudia's history of the world and why?

8. How does Sylvia feel about living in the U.S. for six months out of the year?

9. What does Tom put inside the ring he gives Claudia in Chapter 8?

10. What is ironic about the hippos Claudia and Tom see in the Cairo Zoo?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss war as a motif in Moon Tiger.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the exposition of the novel.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the role of "love" in this novel. Which characters embody the emotion and how do they show it?

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