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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 Padmini uses to free the second boy?

2. The morning after Bronca stays at the Center, what has happened?

3. What are the boys in the pool playing?

4. Who is Padmini?

5. Why does Padmini say she cannot become Queens?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is in the strange picture the group of racist artists show to Bronca and what effect does it have on her?

2. While she is talking to the voice in the bathroom stall, what event does Bronca remember from her childhood?

3. After Aislyn has assaulted Sao Paulo, how is Sao Paulo saved?

4. What poem does the voice in the bathroom stall quote to Bronca, and what is its significance?

5. How do Padmini’s neighbors feel about her and what does this reveal?

6. What happens when a city is born?

7. What is Brooklyn’s past, and how did she become who she is now?

8. What are Bronca and Yijing arguing about in the bathroom in Chapter 4?

9. What does Padmini realize is “wrong” at her next door neighbor’s?

10. What is Brooklyn’s power, and how does she feel about it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Each of the avatars represents an entire city. What messages about symbolism is the author trying to express in the novel?

Essay Topic 2

How does the metaphor of birth relate to the novel’s themes?

Essay Topic 3

In an essay, explore how the characters respond to their competing responsibilities to the city and to others in their lives.

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