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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 Mahmoud show Sarah to prove that Parvin had sent him?
2. What do Parvin and Mahmoud argue about at the meeting at Parvin’s parent’s house?
3. What happens to Truong at the end of “The Boat”?
4. Why does Mai sleep for two days on the boat?
5. What does Mahmoud say Parvin was encouraging people in Iran to do from her radio station in America?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where does Mai’s mother send her the day after visiting her father in the hospital?
2. What happens to Truong on the 13th day when they finally see land ahead?
3. Describe some of the sensory details in the first lines of “The Boat” when Mai is on the boat during the storm.
4. What was Parvin’s radio program in the states called and what was its purpose?
5. What does Mayako decide she will do at the end of “Hiroshima” and what does she say?
6. What happens to the bodies of those who die on the boat?
7. Who is the main character of “Tehran Calling” and where is she in the first lines of the story?
8. What does Quyen tell Mai about where her husband is?
9. Describe the play Parvin had seen when Sarah had arrived in Iran.
10. What does Sarah thinks when she watches the call to prayer from the window of her room at Parvin’s?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Write an essay analyzing how Jamie and his father’s relationship changes over the course of “Halflead Bay.”
Essay Topic 3
Head injuries are a recurring symbol in Nam Le’s The Boat, for example, Jamie in “HalfLead Bay” and the man in the mourning procession in “Tehran Calling.” Choose one example of a head wound from a story in the Boat an analyze how it develops the overall theme of the story.
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