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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. As Aislyn stalks away from the house, who stops in his car to talk to her?

2. What skill does Brooklyn use to help defeat the creatures that attack her home?

3. Where does Sao Paulo decide to head after Queens?

4. Who does the voice in the bathroom stall threaten?

5. What does Bronca recognize on the spiritual journey that allows her to figure out where the Primary is?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are the photographs of graffiti from around the city so important to Bronca?

2. Why is the Primary asleep, as Bronca realizes in Chapter 9?

3. Why is Padmini studying financial engineering?

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

5. How does Padmini manage to free the second boy from the tentacle that has him?

6. In a less physical way, how is Brooklyn attacked?

7. What is Bronca’s attitude when she first becomes the Bronx?

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

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

10. What do readers learn about Aislyn’s mother as the novel goes on?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In an essay, analyze the author’s attitude towards cities. What does she feel are the positive aspects of cities? What are the negative?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay in which you examine how the city changes over the course of the novel. Consider how the White Woman affects the people and places in the city and what the author’s descriptions tell readers about the book’s themes.

Essay Topic 3

Describe in an essay how a minor character or characters influence the novel’s development.

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