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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 identifies the bones as Maali’s?
2. In the Fifth Moon, who discusses Maali’s case?
3. How many bodies were able to be identified?
4. What does Maali wish he could ask the universe?
5. Who appears in Jaki’s dream in the Fifth Moon?
Short Essay Questions
1. "I was there to witness. That is all. All those sunrises and all those massacres existed because I filmed them. Now, they are as dead as me” (244). What does this quote mean?
2. Why do others in the Afterlife continue to discourage Maali's attachment to Down There?
3. What does Maali tell Dr. Ranee after emerging from the dreamscape?
4. Why does Maali want Jaki to forget the box?
5. What does Dr. Ranee inform Maali about in their first interaction?
6. What does Maali think about while in the mara tree with Sena?
7. Why does Dr. Ranee want Maali to feel at peace?
8. How does Dr. Ranee help Maali?
9. What is the author suggesting about Maali’s journey from one moon to the next?
10. How does the author use Sena’s character?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
"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 2
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is narrated entirely in the second person. Why might the author have chosen to write the novel in this manner?
Essay Topic 3
The book oscillates between real-life and an ‘in-between’ underworld, an afterlife that is as bureaucratic as the world above - laden with rules. Discuss why the author has subverted the idea that for many a better afterlife exists.
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