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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 is “hao chi” glossed in the novel?

2. Which of the following does Leigh note is a language announcing the stops on the train she and Waipo take to find Feng?

3. Which of the following does Leigh note Axel earns hourly?

4. Which of the following does Leigh give Dorothy for Christmas?

5. Which of the following does Leigh burn alongside the strange incense?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reasons does Leigh cite in the summer before her sophomore year for going out with Axel and Caro?

2. In the winter of Leigh’s freshman year, what does she do on weekends at Caro’s?

3. What are the contents of Dorothy’s birthday gift to an eight-year-old Leigh?

4. What reasons does Leigh cite for Waigong moving slower than Waipo?

5. What does Leigh note makes her Christmas “almost normal” (193), as opposed to fully normal?

6. What reasons does Leigh cite for needing to find Feng on the forty-fourth day after Dorothy’s death?

7. What does Leigh call the “elephant in the room” when Brian suggests sending her to summer camp (229-30)?

8. What prank does Axel note playing on a younger cousin at Christmas?

9. With what conversation does Tina attempt to distract Dorothy and Leigh after Dorothy calls 911 on herself?

10. What story do Axel and Leanne tell about jazz band?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Much is made in the novel about emails Leigh receives—rather than text messages or voicemail. What function does the choice or reported medium (i.e. email) have in the novel? How is that function achieved?

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 muses that “You can tell when people are falling in love. So there must be a way to see if people are falling out of love, right?” (217) after Dorothy calls 911 on herself. Is there such an indicator as Leigh suggests? What in the novel shows that there is or is not such an indicator, and how does it do so?

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