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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 is the number of unanswered emails from Brian Leigh has after she brings Waipo into the summoned memories for the first time?

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

3. Which of the following does Brian give an eight-year-old Leigh as a birthday snack?

4. Which of the following responds to Dorothy’s 911 call?

5. Which of the following colors does Leigh claim to see in the darkness?

Short Essay Questions

1. What Ghost Month offerings does Leigh note after she retrieves Feng?

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

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

4. What does Leigh posit is the point of photography?

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

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

7. How does Leigh apologize to Feng?

8. What reasons does Leigh give for wanting her father to stay away from home?

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

10. What reasons does Leigh cite in the summer before her sophomore year for refusing piano lessons from Dorothy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explicate the irony of Leigh’s rejection of Faulkner in the second sentence of the novel.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

It is not until Chapter 39 that Leigh’s grandmother gets a name—Yuanyang. What purpose is served by the delay in naming her? How is it served?

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