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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. When Polly is in Beijing, what color eye mask does she wear?

2. What is the time in China when Peter and Kay call Daniel for his birthday?

3. How many names were ahead of Polly's name at Ardsleyville to be chosen to work on the cleaning crew?

4. How many bedrooms did Yong have for the three people he lived with when he was growing up?

5. In Chapter 11, who was the only person Polly had ever told about Ardsleyville?

Short Essay Questions

1. What Daniel decide his life will be at the end of The Leavers?

2. What doubts does Kay remember having when Daniel first came to live with her and Peter?

3. What does Polly have to do to be able to sleep?

4. Why did no one know what happened to Polly?

5. What does Polly tell Yong about Deming, and how does Yong react?

6. How does Polly fit in with the other women at the Fuzhou Business Leaders Forum?

7. How is Fuzhou Polly different from New York Polly?

8. Why does Daniel leave Ridgeborough even though he finished his summer classes with passing grades?

9. What is Beijing like when Daniel arrives?

10. Who does Daniel see at the grocery store and start hanging out with while he is in Ridgeborough for the summer?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Polly and Yong meet when he is a student in one of her classes. How would you describe their relationship?

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

Artistic license is the way that an author creates, art, music, or writing based upon her interpretation of life. How does Ko use artistic license to create the realistic background of The Leavers?

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