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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 happens on Tuesday concerning soccer?
2. What does Paul confess to Tino?
3. Of what does Joey accuse Paul?
4. Why do Tino and Victor get in a fight at soccer practice?
5. What does the group do at Tino's house?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens with Erik at the first football game with Lake Windsor?
2. When and why do Arthur and Erik make fun of Joey?
3. Why do Joey and Tino clash in the group and what is the result of that clash?
4. What starts an argument between Tino and Victor at practice?
5. What happens at half-time during the Tangerine-Lake Windsor soccer game?
6. What does Paul take with him on his first day at Tangerine and what does he tell his mother?
7. How did the subdivision try to take care of the muck problem and what resulted from that effort?
8. Who is Henry's brother and how does Paul know him?
9. What does Joey say about typing up the project?
10. How is Paul partly responsible for winning the game against Lake Windsor?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss one of the following:
1. Trace and analyze the theme of growth in Tangerine. Consider the following questions as you write: What characters are most concerned with growth? Why? What are some symbols of growth? Symbols of rigidity? What characters seem rigid?
2. Trace and analyze the theme of courage in Tangerine. Which characters struggle with this issue? Why? Which characters seem to possess courage? Why?
3. Trace and analyze the theme of death in Tangerine. Consider the death of Mike as an random act of nature and the death of Luis as the result of conscious violence. Consider also in your answer the death of innocence in Paul from the beginning of the book to the end.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the following:
1. What is a plot? What are the most important elements of a plot and their definition? Do all novels have a plot? Why or why not?
2. Write a brief synopsis of the plot of Tangerine, identifying where the various elements of the plot occur (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution or denouement). Do you find it difficult to identify the plot? Why or why not? What about the various elements of the plot?
3. Identify the major sub-plots and their elements in Tangerine. (The subplots may not contain every element of a major plot). Do the sub-plots add to the main plot? Why or why not. Are the sub-plots interesting in and of themselves? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
Choose one of the following to discuss:
1. Choose two significant symbols and trace and analyze their appearance in Tangerine. Are these universal symbols? Would they be understood in any culture? Are there other symbols that would portray the same idea? What are they? Why do you think Bloor chooses the symbols he does?
2. Choose two important metaphors and trace and analyze their appearance in the novel. Are these universal metaphors? Would they be understood in any culture? Are there other metaphors that would portray the same idea? What are they? Why do you think Bloor chooses the metaphors she does?
3. Discuss Bloor's use (or lack ) of literary device (such as foreshadowing, cliffhangers, deux ex machina, etc...), and how they add or detract from the story. Does Bloor use too many or too little literary techniques? State which of the five major elements of fiction the literary device is related to (style, character, plot, setting, theme).
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