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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, in general, are people often to the narrator?

2. What does Agnes say most people fear?

3. How old are the narrator and Fabienne when they start writing?

4. What does the narrator say "corrupts"?

5. What can you not cut an apple with?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Agnes briefly fear Fabienne might do to M. Devaux?

2. How does Agnes describe her own marriage to Earl?

3. What does Anges realize as an adult that Americans are quick to call someone?

4. Why does Fabienne's death seem especially tragic to Agnes?

5. What does M. Bazin say Agnes is?

6. How does Agnes learn of Fabienne's death?

7. What does Jean, Agnes's brother, struggle with?

8. Where do Agnes and Fabienne live?

9. What does Anges once tell Fabienne she thinks everyone fears?

10. Why does Fabienne think Agnes should be the "face" of their books?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Agnes think Fabienne would have reacted to her, Agnes, finally writing the true story of their friendship, and why? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

What effects does the war still cast on Agnes's home village when the book opens, and how does Yiyun communicate them to the reader? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

What does Yiyun use Agnes's geese that she raises to symbolize in the early stages of the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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