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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 does Roya tell Sarah she can get for her if she would like because she knows where her parents keep it?
2. How are Roya and Parvin related?
3. What did Mayako’s brother leave to do when she was very young?
4. What was the purpose of Parvin’s radio show in America?
5. What did Parvin decide the day her best friend’s apartment building was bombed?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are Mahmoud and Parvin’s arguments regarding whether the play about the young girl who was killed should be reenacted during Ashura?
2. Describe some of the sensory details in the first lines of “The Boat” when Mai is on the boat during the storm.
3. After Mai emerges from her fever and two-day sleep, what does she notice about Truong?
4. How does Mayako’s mother describe her life as a child?
5. What was Parvin’s radio program in the states called and what was its purpose?
6. What does Sarah thinks when she watches the call to prayer from the window of her room at Parvin’s?
7. Who is the main character of “Tehran Calling” and where is she in the first lines of the story?
8. What does Sarah learn about why Parvin came to Iran after she tells Mahmoud that she came to Iran to escape a man?
9. What does Big Sister bring Mayako to do with the Volunteer Corps?
10. Why is Sarah surprised by Parvin’s passion for women’s rights in Iran?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay analyzing Sarah and Parvin’s relationship and how the changes in their relationship help to develop the overall theme of the story. Be sure to include direct examples from the text.
Essay Topic 2
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 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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