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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. Which of the following does Todd call his favorite language?

2. Which of the following does Ina cultivate?

3. What high school had Todd’s mother attended?

4. Which of the following islands does Evie favor?

5. Which of the following does Evie see during her admissions appeal?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Rafi advanced a grade level?

2. Why does the young Evie fear nitrogen intoxication?

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

4. Why does Ina pray in Tahitian?

5. Why is Didier selected to be mayor?

6. How does Todd learn to program chess games?

7. Why is the title “President of French Polynesia” a lie in the novel?

8. What does Ina recall about leatherback turtles?

9. Why does Tamatoa not sleep at night?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

To what other writer’s work in your experience does Powers’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?

Essay Topic 2

In the novel, Evie “had found the secret of liberty and life: disguise yourself and do what you need to do” (94). Does the novel have the right of it? What in the text and in experience shows as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Which character is the second most important in the text? How does the work support such an assertion?

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