View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Earl like to do with the narrator when they first get to America?

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

3. Who takes Agnes's picture in Part II?

4. What does every story have?

5. Who is the village postmaster?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where do Agnes and Fabienne live?

2. What happens to Joline, Fabienne's sister?

3. How does Agnes's family handle Jean's death?

4. In what circumstance does Agnes say people would have no need for myths?

5. What does the photographer M. Bazin tell Agnes when he shoots her pictures?

6. Where do Fabienne and Agnes often go to be by themselves and talk?

7. Why do Agnes and Fabienne go to M. Devaux to help with their book?

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

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

10. What does M. Bazin say Agnes is?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Yiyun explain the many differences in personality and temperament between Fabienne and Agnes? 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 do you think Yiyun chooses to highlight the sensationalistic tendencies of the media regarding Fabienne's and Agnes's book? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 464 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample