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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 is the name of Rafi’s mother?

2. How does the novel gloss the term “fenua”?

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

4. How does the novel gloss “latency”?

5. To which of the following does Evie compare herself?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why is Rafi sent to a magnet school?

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

6. Why does Tamatoa not sleep at night?

7. Why is Didier selected to be mayor?

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

9. Why does the young Evie fear nitrogen intoxication?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Overall, what is the most important theme of Playground. What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

On the whole, how does the novel view art? What in the text says so, and how does it say so?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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