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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. In Chapter 9, what were two brothers traded for in Quig's compound?

2. In Chapter 8, how often is there a festival that includes culling the fish in B-Mor ponds?

3. In Chapter 3, what was the weather like when Fan left B-Mor?

4. Where were Quig and his family when they were arrested for selling drugs?

5. In Chapter 9, who tells Fan about Quig's family?

Short Essay Questions

1. Toward the end of Chapter 9, why does Quig swerve on the road, and how does he explain what happened to Loreen?

2. In Chapter 2, what was different about the immigration of the narrator's predecessors to B-Mor?

3. In Chapter 11, what is the place like where Quig and his family stay their first night on the road?

4. At the end of Chapter 8, what do the narrators say would happen if the Charters start growing their own products?

5. In Chapter 6, how did Reg end up with mixed blood in his family?

6. Why does Quig leave the inn alone at the end of Chapter 11?

7. In Chapter 2, why did everyone have to leave Xixu City in New China?

8. What was Quig's background?

9. What is known about when Fan left B-Mor?

10. In Chapter 4, how is the area described that Fan first travels through?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When people get old and sick, medical care ceases and they are left to die. What seems to be the attitude toward the elderly in B-Mor? What value do the elderly have? Why are the elderly expected to give up their lives? What is revealed about the value of old age in the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Quig decides to use Fan to barter for the digging equipment and medicine that he needs. Why does Quig make the decision to use Fan as barter? How does the way that Quig treats Fan after that decision seem to reveal about the emotions he feels about bartering her? Do his actions seem to reflect guilt?

Essay Topic 3

The novel is told from a first-person plural point of view. How does the way that the story is told affect what readers know and think of Fan? How does the point of view create a distance between readers and fan? How does using the first-person plural point of view affect the development of Fan’s story?

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