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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 Sarah say her problems are compared to Parvin’s?
2. How are Roya and Parvin related?
3. What reason does Mahmoud give to Sarah for why the man in the procession cut his head?
4. What did both Mayako and Yumiko’s father’s do after the Manchuria Incident?
5. Who does the man who approaches Sarah at the airport at the start of “Tehran Calling” tell her he is?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Quyen tell Mai about where her husband is?
2. What does Sarah learn about why Parvin came to Iran after she tells Mahmoud that she came to Iran to escape a man?
3. What games do the children play when they play outside together, which leaves some of them weeping?
4. Where does Mai’s mother send her the day after visiting her father in the hospital?
5. What does Sarah thinks when she watches the call to prayer from the window of her room at Parvin’s?
6. What does Mai notice is unusual about Quyen and Truong’s relationship on the boat?
7. What are some of the first images Sarah sees in the terminal at the start of “Tehran Calling”?
8. What does Mayako tell Mrs. Tamura after her parents visit her at the temple on Visiting Day?
9. Who is Anh Phuoc and what does he do on the boat?
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
Write an essay analyzing Henry’s physical and emotional changes over the course of “Meeting Elise.”
Essay Topic 2
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 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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