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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. As which of the following colors does Leigh describe certainty?
2. Which of the following does Leigh find in the old cardboard boxes through which she searches?
3. Which of the following does Leigh give Dorothy for Christmas?
4. Near which of the following does Waipo report having been born?
5. Which of the following does Cheslin take to Caro’s photoshoot at the creek?
Short Essay Questions
1. What challenges does Leigh note in reading the letter to her mother she opened?
2. What reasons does Yuanyang have for thinking agricultural work easier than schooling?
3. What reasons does Axel give for having broken up with Leanne in the winter of Leigh’s freshman year?
4. What does Leigh note makes her Christmas “almost normal” (193), as opposed to fully normal?
5. What reasons does Leigh cite for needing to find Feng on the forty-fourth day after Dorothy’s death?
6. What does Leigh posit is the point of photography?
7. What prank does Axel note playing on a younger cousin at Christmas?
8. What does Leigh call the “elephant in the room” when Brian suggests sending her to summer camp (229-30)?
9. What reasons does Leigh cite for Waigong moving slower than Waipo?
10. What reasons does Leigh give for wanting her father to stay away from home?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What significance does Nagori’s misreading of Leigh’s hesitation about submitting to an international art contest have. (He thinks it stems from concerns about the submission fee, rather than parental opposition [296].) How does that significance emerge?
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
At the beginning of Chapter 19, Leigh opines on assigning fault for her mother’s suicide, asserting that “It’s only human nature to look for a place to lay the blame” (76). Within the context of the novel, is the assertion correct? How does the novel make it so or not so?
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