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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 is special about the tree?

2. What year are the photos taken?

3. What does Maari say in response to the woman?

4. What did Maali make for the young American journalist, Andrew McGown?

5. Where does Maali wake up?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where do Jaki and her companions discover Maali's photographs?

2. What is Maali trying to remember while on his mission?

3. What do the photos reveal, and why is Maali desperate for his friends to locate the negatives?

4. How does the author particularly use Maali’s box of photos in the novel?

5. Why is Maali eager to make contact with his friends?

6. What does Maali think is happening when he first wakes in the In Between?

7. How is Maali's photojournalist work related to his death?

8. How does the experience on the rooftop impact Maali emotionally?

9. Who tells Maali to get his ears checked and what does the doctor say about ear folds?

10. Why does Dr. Ranee continue urging Maali to get the Ear Check?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Maali realize after the Department of Justice explosion? What does his time at the River of Births and in The Light reveal to him?

Essay Topic 2

"You were never claustrophobic despite all that time spent in bunkers and narrow beds and lifelong closets. But, like any reasonable person, you’d like the option of running away, especially when there is plenty to run from" (140). Discuss what is meant by this quote, and how it relates to the way Maali was forced to live his life.

Essay Topic 3

What is the significance of the mara tree? What does Maali think about while in the mara tree with Sena?

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