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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. What nickname do Todd’s parents give him?

2. For what team had Didier hoped to play?

3. How does the novel gloss the term “Menteur”?

4. How does the novel gloss the term “gati”?

5. Who is Makatea’s technologist?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What game does Rafi play at the Taylor library?

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

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

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

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

8. Why is Didier selected to be mayor?

9. What does Ina recall about leatherback turtles?

10. Why is Rafi advanced a grade level?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is to be made of Rafi’s predilection for reading medievalist and fantasy works? Why is that the conclusion to draw about it? What in the text supports the idea, and how does it do so?

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

Consider the cosmogyny expressed in the first two sections of the novel. What does it explain in your world? What does it fail to explain? How?

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