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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 adjective does Xiomara use to describe the Kendrick Lamar album when Aman asks for her impressions?
2. What does the Spanish phrase "Pero, tu no eres facil" (9) mean in English?
3. Xiomara reports that she allows what object or objects to "talk for" (5) her?
4. Aman and Xiomara listen to a full album together in the smoke park, who is the music artist?
5. What adjective does Xiomara use to describe her "friendship" (95) with Aman?
Short Essay Questions
1. Name three reasons that Xiomara decides, after the initial excitement has faded, not to respond to the flyer she sees at school.
2. In what format is the novel The Poet X composed?
3. What question is posed in the sticky note Ms. Galiano attaches to Xiomara's Assignment 1?
4. What is the subject of the poem entitled "The Flyer" (67) and why does the flyer feel personalized for Xiomara?
5. What does Mami see as the main shortcoming of parenting in the United States?
6. Discuss the irony present in the scene when Mami returns home to find Xavier crying and blames Xiomara.
7. Discuss evidence that points to the conclusion that Xiomara is becoming more practiced at deception.
8. In what way is writing depicted as a therapeutic activity within Part I of the novel?
9. What simile does Xiomara use in order to describe the arrival of October?
10. By what name does Xiomara always call Xavier and why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In what way is the theme of family bonds included and portrayed within the novel The Poet X?
Essay Topic 2
Determine Acevedo's message regarding the idea that art must be shared with an audience in order to fulfill its true potential.
Essay Topic 3
William Faulkner once famously claimed that the most important literature deals with the subject of the human heart in conflict with itself. Explain how the theme of Human versus Self is demonstrated within The Poet X. Create a decisive, arguable claim and prove it with quotes from the novel.
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