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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 store does Kay take Deming to buy him new clothes when he goes to live with her and her husband?

2. In Chapter 2, where does Daniel remember seeing a Chinese woman who told him in Mandarin she was lost and who asked for help?

3. How long has it been in Chapter 2 since Daniel has seen Michael Chen?

4. How long after Daniel's first visit to see Angel, Jim, and Elaine, was he adopted by the Wilkinsons?

5. In Chapter 5, what is the name of Michael's stepfather?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Polly send Deming back to China to live with her father?

2. Why do Daniel's parents come to visit him in New York?

3. What is Leon doing when Michael and Daniel reunite at a Starbucks?

4. What happened to Polly at the nail salon at the end of Chapter 10?

5. How did Polly get pregnant?

6. Why did Polly move to Funzhou and what job did she get?

7. How did Polly get to America and why did she go?

8. What is a birthday tradition for the Wilkinsons, and how does that work on Deming's birthday?

9. Why does Vivian Deming to social services?

10. Where do Kay and Peter Wilkinson live and what do they do for a living?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mood is an element that authors use to evoke feelings in readers through the use of descriptive language. Mood is the overall feeling that readers have when reading a story. What is the overall mood of Audacity?

Essay Topic 2

Accumulation is a literary device that allows an author to gather scattered ideas in a literary work and gradually build on information readers need to know. From whose perspective are various sections told? How does each section add information? How does the use of multiple viewpoints, flashbacks, and other literary devices allow Ko to use accumulation to advance the plot and provide important details to readers?

Essay Topic 3

A character arc is the inner journey of a character in a book. What is Deming/Daniel’s character arc, and what situations influence his growth and transformation?

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