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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. What was Sarah’s occupation at Pearson, Peelle and Sloss?
3. Whose expression does Mai realize Truong resembles?
4. What does Mahmoud show Sarah to prove that Parvin had sent him?
5. What reason does Mahmoud give to Sarah for why the man in the procession cut his head?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the play Parvin had seen when Sarah had arrived in Iran.
2. How crowded is the boat as described on p. 247 of “The Boat”?
3. After Mai emerges from her fever and two-day sleep, what does she notice about Truong?
4. What does Sarah thinks when she watches the call to prayer from the window of her room at Parvin’s?
5. What does Sarah learn about why Parvin came to Iran after she tells Mahmoud that she came to Iran to escape a man?
6. What is going on the week Sarah arrived in Iran, which Mahmoud tells her is their holiest week?
7. What are some of the first images Sarah sees in the terminal at the start of “Tehran Calling”?
8. What was Parvin’s radio program in the states called and what was its purpose?
9. What are the issues Parvin expresses to Sarah that she has with her activist group and their constant meetings?
10. Where does Mai’s mother send her the day after visiting her father in the hospital?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay comparing and contrasting male / female representation in two or more short stories in Nam Le’s The Boat.
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
The ocean is a symbol in several of the stories in Nam Le’s The Boat. Choose two or more stories that include the ocean as symbol and write an essay analyzing the roles and symbolic significance of the ocean.
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