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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 does Maali meet on the night of his death in Fifth Moon?

2. What does the Minister do with in the crematorium with Maali’s bones?

3. In the Fifth Moon, who discusses Maali’s case?

4. Maali and Sena sit in a mara tree and observe what?

5. What does Maali want Jaki to find?

Short Essay Questions

1. Over the course of the Fourth excerpt, how does the author use Maali’s sorrow?

2. What does Dr. Ranee teach Maali about good and evil?

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

4. Why do others in the Afterlife continue to discourage Maali's attachment to Down There?

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

6. How does the author convey Maali's spiritual trascencedence?

7. What is Maali gaining now that he is a member of the spirit world?

8. Why does Maali want Jaki to forget the box?

9. How does Dr. Ranee help Maali?

10. How did Maali hurt DD?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the symbolic connotation of the seven moons?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

"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.

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