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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. What bus route does Rafi’s mother drive?
(a) Sheridan.
(b) LaSalle.
(c) Harrison.
(d) Racine.

2. What game does Rafi play with his grandfather?
(a) Nine Men's Morris.
(b) Mancala.
(c) Rummy.
(d) Cribbage.

3. In what hospital does Rafi’s sister die?
(a) Mount Sinai.
(b) Cook County.
(c) Weiss Memorial.
(d) South Shore.

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

5. How old is Todd in the present of the novel?
(a) 47.
(b) 37.
(c) 67.
(d) 57.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year is Todd born?

2. Which of the following islands does Evie favor?

3. Who is Makatea’s technologist?

4. What is the name of Rafi’s sister?

5. Which of the following does Todd note receiving as a gift?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Todd learn to program chess games?

2. In the novel, what is the primary importance of phosphates?

3. What does Evie answer when asked about her life philosophy?

4. What motivates Rafi’s father’s insistence on his reading?

5. Why does Ina tell Hariti the story of Ta’aroa?

6. Why does Tamatoa not sleep at night?

7. Why is Rafi sent to a magnet school?

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

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

10. How does Todd explain his father’s desire to have a child?

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