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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 Yuanyang imagine her birth father playing?
2. Which of the following does Leigh note in the Shilin Night Market?
3. As which of the following colors does Leigh depict her hurt at Axel’s story with Leanne?
4. In which of the following periods does Leigh have art class during her sophomore year?
5. To which of the following colors does Leigh compare her laughter?
Short Essay Questions
1. What story do Axel and Leanne tell about jazz band?
2. How is the sale of the infant Yuanyang to another family justified?
3. What Ghost Month offerings does Leigh note after she retrieves Feng?
4. What Halloween decorations does Leigh note in the fall of her sophomore year?
5. What reaction does Leigh expect from Brian to the idea of her submitting a portfolio to an international art competition?
6. What reasons does Leigh give for demurring to open the letters to her mother?
7. What does Axel posit would happen if art were stripped from Leigh?
8. What reasons does Leigh cite for needing to find Feng on the forty-fourth day after Dorothy’s death?
9. What reasons does Leigh cite in the summer before her sophomore year for going out with Axel and Caro?
10. What does Leigh call the “elephant in the room” when Brian suggests sending her to summer camp (229-30)?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Leigh repeatedly calls attention to cracks in reality that appear only in brief flashes. Explicate the imagery of those cracks.
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
Consider the paratextual features of The Astonishing Color of After—the headings of selected chapters, the differences in typeface in certain parts of the novel. What effect do they have on the narrative? How is that effect achieved? What purpose might the effect serve? How might it serve it?
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