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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To which of the following does Evie apply for postgraduate schooling?
(a) Stanford.
(b) UCLA.
(c) Scripps.
(d) Claremont.

2. What book do Bart and Evie read together?
(a) The Silent World.
(b) Moby-Dick.
(c) On the Road.
(d) Clearly It Is Ocean.

3. What high school had Todd’s mother attended?
(a) Old Doer.
(b) New Trier.
(c) Old Trier.
(d) New Doer.

4. In what year does Evie begin college?
(a) 1983.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1953.

5. Who was Rafi’s first-grade teacher?
(a) Davidson.
(b) Ebberson.
(c) Patterson.
(d) Johnson.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the novel gloss the term “l’Oublié”?

2. What Sousa march was written the year phosphates were discovered on Makatea?

3. Which of the following does Rafi study in elementary school?

4. From which of the following does Rafi steal?

5. How old is Todd in the present of the novel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ina recall about leatherback turtles?

2. From what do the phosphate deposits on Makatea derive?

3. Why does Rafi dislike reading the encyclopedias his father gave him?

4. Why is Rafi sent to a magnet school?

5. What domains are ascribed to the deity Tane in the novel?

6. Why is Didier selected to be mayor?

7. What is the irony of phosphate mining on Makatea?

8. Why is Evie asked about continental drift in her admissions appeal?

9. Why does Ina pray in Tahitian?

10. In applying for high school admission, what does Rafi note is his favorite place in the world?

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