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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. What is the theme of THE BIG WAVE?

2. How does Setsu feel about Jiya living with her family?

3. What does the big wave eradicate?

4. Kino's father says that Jiya will _______________________ when he wakes.

5. What does Kino want to do after the family eats?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Kino's father say they must wait for Jiya?

2. How does Kino's father respond when Kino thinks it is cruel for the sky and sea to be calm again?

3. How does Jiya's awe of an angry sea foreshadow what the sea is ultimately capable of?

4. What experience does Kino have with diving that lets him know why Jiya feels the way he does about the sea?

5. How does Jiya feel when his new family encourages him to sit at the table and eat with them?

6. How does Kino's father divert Kino's thoughts from the destruction of the big wave?

7. Why does Kino sometimes wish his father were a fisherman and other days glad that his father is a farmer?

8. Where does Kino live?

9. Why do Kino and his family surround Jiya as he begins to awaken?

10. What does Kino want to do with Jiya after they eat dinner?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The author uses more than one iteration on the theme of man vs. nature. Identify at least two situation which embody the man vs.nature theme.

Essay Topic 2

Grief takes on an almost human persona in this book. What were the sources of emotional abuse in the story? What is this literary technique called? Cite examples that support this position.

Essay Topic 3

Pearl Buck is a master at dramatic devices. Choose an example of symbolism, metaphor, and irony, and briefly describe them and identify the technique which they embody.

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