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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. Who has sat at this tree before Maali and Sena?

2. Who does the Minister want to capture?

3. Who assures the group that Maali will turn up?

4. Who does Maali realize may have been narrating his life?

5. Who does Maali discover at the Palace?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Dr. Ranee help Maali?

2. What happens the longer Maali occupies the In Between?

3. Why does Maali spend the majority of his time focusing on Down There in the Fourth Moon?

4. How does Maali attempt to communicate to Jaki that the negatives are not important?

5. What does Dr. Ranee inform Maali about in their first interaction?

6. Why does Maali continue lamenting the loss of his photographs?

7. How did Maali spend the night of his death?

8. What does Maali tell Dr. Ranee after emerging from the dreamscape?

9. How does Maali's sense of truth and reality falter?

10. Why does Dr. Ranee want Maali to feel at peace?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Seven Moons is laced with off-beat humor; the author adds levity to heavier moments. In an interview with The Booker Prize, he said, of Sri Lankans, "We specialize in gallows humor and make jokes in the face of our crises.’" Has the author succeeded in bringing the humor of his nation to life?

Essay Topic 2

Why is Maali ambitious to take photographs throughout his life?

Essay Topic 3

How did Maali spend the night of his death? How did he hurt DD?

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