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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. What is the name of Ina’s son?

3. What is Rafi’s father’s name?

4. On which of the following were phosphates earliest found?

5. Who was Didier’s predecessor in office?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Evie camouflage herself while in high school?

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why is Rafi advanced a grade level?

8. What is described as the major perk of the mayoral office on Makatea?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Explicate the significance of the name of any one character in the text.

Essay Topic 3

A lack of formal sectional division in the novel obliges a fairly arbitrary breakdown of the text for purposes of study and discussion. On what grounds might the current divisions be in place? Why and how are they appropriate to the text?

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