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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 did Mayako’s brother leave to do when she was very young?

2. What did Mai sell in order to support her family?

3. When did Parvin move from Iran to Europe?

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

5. Truong becomes to weak to do what toward the end of “The Boat”?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Anh Phuoc and what does he do on the boat?

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

3. What are Mahmoud and Parvin’s arguments regarding whether the play about the young girl who was killed should be reenacted during Ashura?

4. What are some of the first images Sarah sees in the terminal at the start of “Tehran Calling”?

5. What does Sarah learn about Parvin’s past life in Iran before leaving for Europe?

6. What does Mayako decide she will do at the end of “Hiroshima” and what does she say?

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

8. 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?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay analyzing Mai and Quyen’s relationship in “The Boat.” What are the circumstances under which they met? What is their connection? In what ways does this connection change over the course of the story?

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

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

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