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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 Tailliez show Diolé?

2. What nickname do Todd’s parents give him?

3. What game does Rafi play with his grandfather?

4. With which chess strategy does Rafi display facility?

5. Which of the following does Rafi’s sister call him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What makes Bart a good study partner for Evie while they are in college together?

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

3. What does Ina recall about leatherback turtles?

4. Why does Ina pray in Tahitian?

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

6. Why is Didier selected to be mayor?

7. Why does Tamatoa not sleep at night?

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

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

10. Why is Rafi advanced a grade level?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sources attest to the presence of Playground on best-seller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of the novel? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Assuming that Playground should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Conversely, given demonstrated efforts toward censorship in a number of countries, what would likely prompt bans of Playground? By which groups? Why?

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