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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 would Nam’s father do when Nam was a child if he deviated from his intense summer study schedule?
2. Who was questioned after the body of the young girl was found near Dory’s uncle’s house?
3. After meeting him at the jetty, what does Alison say about the area they walk to near the courthouse ruins?
4. What does Luis ask the narrator when he has his gun pointing at his target’s face?
5. What does Cale tell Jamie about his dead girlfriend whose necklace he wears?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who is Cale and how does Jamie know him?
2. How does Ron know Hernando, and what ultimately forces Hernando to leave his life of crime behind?
3. What does Nam try to hide from his father when he arrives at his apartment?
4. What did Jamie’s father do after his mother was diagnosed with MS?
5. How does Nam’s father treat the homeless man he finds by the river?
6. What happens when Ron is ordered to kill his friend Hernando?
7. How does Luis and the group treat their target after they find him in his neighborhood eating a donut?
8. 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?
9. Why are Carlos and Salesio missing from Ron’s gallada as explained at the start of “Cartagena”?
10. How did Ron get involved with El Padre?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay analyzing how Nam and his father’s relationship develops over the course of the story “Love and Honor and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice.”
Essay Topic 2
Choose two stories from The Boat and write an essay analyzing the theme of loneliness in the text.
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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