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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. Who does Sarah assure Parvin she will not make her talk about even though Parvin had asked her to talk about?

2. How many people die during the two days Mai sleeps on the boat?

3. Why does Mai sleep for two days on the boat?

4. Who is telling the girls to keep their back straight while cleaning the floors at the beginning of “Hiroshima”?

5. What are people on the boat doing as a result of the storm?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sarah thinks when she watches the call to prayer from the window of her room at Parvin’s?

2. What does Quyen tell Mai about where her husband is?

3. What does Mai notice is unusual about Quyen and Truong’s relationship on the boat?

4. What was Parvin’s radio program in the states called and what was its purpose?

5. What is going on the week Sarah arrived in Iran, which Mahmoud tells her is their holiest week?

6. What does Quyen tell Mai she was going to ask Mai to do when they arrive on land to give her time to tell her husband about Truong?

7. What are the issues Parvin expresses to Sarah that she has with her activist group and their constant meetings?

8. Who is Roya and what role does she take in regards to Sarah’s visit to Parvin’s parent’s villa?

9. Where is Mayako at the beginning of “Hirsoshima” and what is she doing with the other girls per Mrs. Sasaki’s orders?

10. What happens to Mai’s father five years after coming home from fighting the Communists?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Father / child relationships are a recurrent theme in Nam Le’s The Boat. Choose two stories from The Boat and compare and contrast the father / child relationships represented in the two stories.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay analyzing the relationship between Olivia and Henry in “Meeting Elise.” What does this relationship represent and how does it impact the stories theme?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay analyzing Henry’s physical and emotional changes over the course of “Meeting Elise.”

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