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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. How long has Elaia had cancer in Chapter 27?

2. In Chapter 29, where do Perdu, Max, and Cuneo run into a storm?

3. What does Perdu think that Samy's laugh is like in Chapter 32?

4. In Chapter 22, how old is the woman that Perdu chooses to dance with?

5. In Chapter 22, how long has Cuneo been looking for a young river pilot he met?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 24, how does Cuneo describe the woman he is looking for?

2. How does Southern Lights bring Samy her man?

3. What does Olson say about being on Facebook in Chapter 23?

4. Why does Cuneo join Perdu and Max on their voyage in Chapter 23?

5. In Chapter 22, what is the woman like that Perdu suggests Max dance with?

6. In Manon's travel diary at the end of Chapter 21, what did Manon say about Luc and Perdu?

7. On what conditions does Perdu want Cuneo and Samy to take his barge?

8. At the end of Chapter 33, what were the only things that Manon took for the cancer and why?

9. What does the woman look like and what does she do when she opens the door the P.D. Olson's home?

10. Why did Samy write Southern Lights?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Perdu considers a poem by Hesse and what it says about saying farewell. What does Perdu decide that he needs to say farewell to and how does the Hesse poem help him say good-bye to baggage in his life?

Essay Topic 2

As Perdu contemplated Max and the book he wrote, Perdu wondered how it was possible to feel so intensely and still survive. Why is it difficult for Perdu to understand how someone can go on after suffering heartbreak?

Essay Topic 3

Books have been protection for Perdu. How have books created a force field in his life and how has that force field affected the way that Perdu lives?

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