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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 Bart’s nickname?

2. In what hospital does Rafi’s sister die?

3. Which of the following appellations is assigned to Rafi by his classmates?

4. What is the name of Rafi’s sister?

5. What call number does Todd read through in his hometown library?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Ina recall about leatherback turtles?

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

5. Why does Tamatoa not sleep at night?

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

7. Why is Didier selected to be mayor?

8. Why is Rafi advanced a grade level?

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

10. How does Todd learn to program chess games?

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

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

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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