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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. When Sem and Harun visit an experimental town in "Red Bandana," how long has the it been since the building began?
2. Where is Lukas Cierny's daughter from?
3. When the ambulance stops at the hospital, what color hockey shirt is a girl wearing who walks between the cars toward the building?
4. Where is the African Muslim girl from who is the evening nurse for Sem and Lukas Cierny?
5. What is the name of a bookstore Sem notices as he is riding in the ambulance?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens to Sem when he is getting ready for work?
2. What happens when Sem arrives at the hospital?
3. What is Arcosanti?
4. What conversation does Sem have with his mother after his heart attack?
5. How did Harun injure his little finger, and why did his parents not take him to the hospital?
6. How does Sanja prepare the apartment for Sem's return?
7. What does Sem connect the pain in his throat and the metallic taste in his mouth to?
8. What does Sem remember about seeing Harun when he was a newborn in the hospital?
9. What is Sem wrapped in when he goes to the hospital and where did he get it from?
10. Who was Ilija Ladin, and what did Sem say about him?
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 the book? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and characters?
Essay Topic 2
Sem and Harun visit Arcosanti. In what way is Arcosanti an incomplete city? Why does Sem think everything that is built or is written should be incomplete? How would that incompleteness allow a process to last indefinitely? What would be the advantage of a process that lasts indefinitely?
Essay Topic 3
Sem and Harun emigrated to the U.S. How did Sem and Harun have to adapt when they moved to the U.S.? Who adapted more quickly? In what way are they still foreigners? Why is Harun more of a native than Sem?
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