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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 happened the week after Iris and Richard's wedding?
2. What does Iris see hanging from the tree outside her former home?
3. Why does Iris dislike the Laura Chase Memorial Prize?
4. What is the name of the leader of the group who intend to invade Sakiel-Norn?
5. Who hosts a reception for Iris?
Short Essay Questions
1. In chapter 4, X is hired to kill the king. How is X supposed to get close enough to the king to kill him?
2. How does Norval Chase respond to the stock market crash and following economic depression?
3. Describe the relationship between the man and the woman in 'The Blind Assassin' sub novel in chapter 2.
4. Why does Iris marry Richard Griffen?
5. What is the fate of slave children who make the carpets in Sakiel-Norn?
6. Why is it awkward between Liliana and Norval Chase when he returns from the war?
7. According to the news article in chapter 4, how does Norval Chase respond to the economic depression?
8. In chapter 4, what is Richard Griffen's stance on creating jobs throughout government stimulus plans implemented in America by Franklin D. Roosevelt?
9. In chapter 5, Laura does something that scares and angers Iris because she thinks it will save her dead mother. What does Laura do?
10. In chapter 1, do you think Iris is too concerned with maintaining appearances?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The information related to the reader through the newspaper clippings and that communicated through Iris's memoir often disagrees. Throughout the novel many of the characters, particularly Winifred and Laura are obsessed with ensuring that their behavior and demeanor fits in to what they feel befits people of their social class, or at least that their behavior appears to comply with it. Yet, often the truth as presented in Iris's memoir is much more sinister than the supposed truth reported by the media. Discuss the disconnect between the public facade and private reality of the Chase/Griffen family as presented in the novel? What characters do you think care more about appearance than reality and what characters care more about reality? In other words, what are the priorities of the main characters? Why is so much more importance placed on appearing upright than on acting upright?
Essay Topic 2
In chapter 7, Iris says "the only way to write the truth is to assume that what you write down will never be read," yet she herself is ultimately writing with a particular audience in mind, Sabrina. Do you agree or disagree with Iris's statement? Why or why not? Furthermore, do you think that Iris's actions support her statement? Consider both Iris's memoir and her novel as examples of her writing. Is the novel true or not? She says that she originally writes it only for herself but then eventually publishes it, thus giving it to other people. How does this affect the truth contained within it?
Essay Topic 3
At any point in the novel, the political climate often directly affects the lives of the characters. How does the changing political climate affect the story? Consider the effects of such events as the stock market crash, labor strikes, World Wars I and II, and the Spanish Civil War.
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