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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 does Axel play?
3. As which of the following colors does Leigh describe certainty?
4. In which of the following months of Leigh’s freshman year does Dorothy call 911 on herself?
5. Which of the following does Leigh note is a language announcing the stops on the train she and Waipo take to find Feng?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Axel posit would happen if art were stripped from Leigh?
2. What are the contents of Dorothy’s birthday gift to an eight-year-old Leigh?
3. What does Leigh posit is the point of photography?
4. What reasons does Axel give for having broken up with Leanne in the winter of Leigh’s freshman year?
5. What reasons does Leigh cite for Waigong moving slower than Waipo?
6. How is Jingling described to Leigh when she asks Waipo about her?
7. What reasons does Leigh give for demurring to open the letters to her mother?
8. What does Leigh note makes her Christmas “almost normal” (193), as opposed to fully normal?
9. What Halloween decorations does Leigh note in the fall of her sophomore year?
10. What reasons does Leigh cite in the summer before her sophomore year for going out with Axel and Caro?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Sources attest to the presence of The Astonishing Color of After on best-seller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of the novel? 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
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?
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