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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 does Leigh burn alongside the strange incense?
2. Which of the following do Leigh and Axel take to Caro’s photoshoot at the creek?
3. With which of the following colors does Leigh associate error?
4. Which of the following colors of dress does Leigh wear to the Winter Formal?
5. To which of the following does Leigh go on the forty-sixth day after Dorothy’s death?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Leigh apologize to Feng?
2. What challenges does Leigh note in reading the letter to her mother she opened?
3. What reasons does Leigh give for wanting her father to stay away from home?
4. What reasons does Leigh cite in the summer before her sophomore year for refusing piano lessons from Dorothy?
5. What does Axel posit would happen if art were stripped from Leigh?
6. What does Leigh posit is the point of photography?
7. How is the sale of the infant Yuanyang to another family justified?
8. What prank does Axel note playing on a younger cousin at Christmas?
9. What reasons does Leigh cite in the summer before her sophomore year for going out with Axel and Caro?
10. What reasons does Axel give for having broken up with Leanne in the winter of Leigh’s freshman year?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Leigh notes that “It calms me to see everything more clearly, to note the sharp corners of the piano bench, the straightness of the curtains draping down against the window” (36)? Why might Leigh take comfort from straight, sharp edges? What in the text and in experience suggests that reason? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Should The Astonishing Color of After be regarded as a work of magical realism? Why or why not, based on the text and your understanding of magical realism as a genre?
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