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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 is the weather like at the beginning of "Snowflake," pages 121-171?

2. When did Sem remember living in the studio of the fine-art group Zvono?

3. What color pickup is a man near who is stripped to the waist shaving?

4. What word did Harun use to describe his father when his father gave a reading at Villa Aurora?

5. Who was the subject of a movie based on "M's" work?

Short Essay Questions

1. After Sanja has been in the hospital two days, what does Sem go back to their apartment to get?

2. What memory of driving in New Mexico does Sem hope that Sanja has not forgotten?

3. How did Harun acquire the habit of going into the mountains when he was quite young, and what did he do there?

4. What did Sem find interesting about photographs "M" took of their apartment?

5. What does Sem remember Harun telling a college interviewer?

6. What does Sem think is problematic about how treatment is managed in the hospital?

7. What do they learn about Sanja's condition after doing scans at the hospital?

8. What is Sanja's situation by the time she has been in the hospital for four nights?

9. What type of tennis shoes does Sanja have, and why are those typical of who she is and what she is like?

10. What does Harun photograph at night, and to what does Sem compare the way that Harun creates photographs?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A simile is a figure of speech that is used to make comparisons between things. How does the use of metaphors or similes to help readers comprehend concepts? How does the use of similes help readers make the writing more interesting? What purpose do similes serve in the book?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Genre is a means of classifying literature. What is the genre of the novel? Why is it fiction?

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