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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 colors does Leigh associate with guilt?
2. The comment that “the stain on the bedroom floor is as permanent as the sky” (1) offers an example of which of the following?
3. Which of the following is the reported title of Leigh and Caro’s collaborative art-class project?
4. Which of the following types of apple do Leigh and Axel harvest in the Lockhart Orchard?
5. Which of the following scents does Leigh associate with her father?
Short Essay Questions
1. What reasons does Leigh note for doubting her grandmother’s favorable description of her?
2. What does Leigh advance as a working definition of family?
3. What reasons does Leigh give for asserting that the body in the casket is not her mother?
4. What small talk does Brian relate to Leigh when they arrive at her grandparents’ home?
5. How does Leigh imagine Axel composing in response to the park she visits with Waipo on her first full day in Taipei?
6. Why does Leigh excuse Axel’s “sucking up” to Dorothy (90)?
7. What is Leigh’s reaction to meeting Caro’s family?
8. What does Leigh note about her fourteenth birthday?
9. Why does Brian note Leigh should not have received the box she reports receiving from the bird Dorothy became?
10. How does Leigh relate her parents’ meeting to the Renards?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Leigh notes that “Some terrible requirement of being a teenager is being absolutely awful when your parents are being lovely” (299). Is her assertion correct? What in the novel and in experience suggests that it is or is not, and how does it do so?
Essay Topic 2
Notably, Leigh’s art teacher is given the title “Dr.” Few if any of her other teachers are. What significance attaches itself to her art teacher having a terminal degree? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 3
Explicate the imagery of the cicada that permeates the novel.
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