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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 name does Ron’s boss go by?

2. What does Jamie’s dad suggest he, Jamie, and Michael do together soon to give their mother a break from them?

3. Which member of the group urges the narrator to help them with the with their “business on behalf of Luis” (30)?

4. Who did Nam’s father see get executed by an American soldier when he was young?

5. What did Jamie’s mother make him promise after he found her fallen to the floor two years ago when she relapsed?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Jamie praised at the school assembly at the start of “Halflead Bay”?

2. When Henry arrives at Carnegie Hall to try to see Elise he is given a note from her. What does the note say?

3. How does Luis and the group treat their target after they find him in his neighborhood eating a donut?

4. Whose website bio does Henry look at in the beginning of “Meeting Elise” and what does it say?

5. After Nam interviews his father and rewrites his story, what does his father do with his story when he takes it outside?

6. How does Ron know Hernando, and what ultimately forces Hernando to leave his life of crime behind?

7. What does Cale confess to Jamie when he comes to his house to tell him that Tammie said Dory is going to beat Jamie up at practice?

8. Why does Jamie’s father think they need to move to Maroomba and how does he ask Jamie and his brother to help make it happen?

9. How does Alison behave when Jamie goes to Dory’s house to follow through with the fight?

10. Who is Cale and how does Jamie know him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay analyzing whether Nam is a reliable narrator or not in “Love and Honor and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice.”

Essay Topic 2

Choose two stories from The Boat that have common themes. Write an essay comparing and contrasting how these themes are developed in each story. Use direct examples from each stories to support your analysis.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay analyzing Nam Le’s choice to tell the story from a particular point of view in any one of the stories in The Boat. Discuss how this point-of-view impacts the reader’s experience. Using direct examples from the text, explain why this point-of-view is or is not an effective choice.

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