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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 does Siegfried do as a result of the dream?
2. What is Klara watching when she remembers the end of the war?
3. What does Klara vow to do?
4. Why does the mother go there?
5. What is a characteristic of Hanna's father?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens when Hanna's baby brother is born?
2. What is wrong with Renate's leg and why and how does Hanna try to fix it?
3. How did Trudi's mother dropping her supposedly affect her?
4. Describe Klara's romance with an American soldier.
5. What does Hanna learn from Trudi about her father?
6. What does Siegfried do as a result of the dream and why does he do so?
7. What happens to Hanna's paternal grandmother and how does she cope?
8. What do many people believe is the cause of Trudi becoming an old maid?
9. What do the townspeople say is the source of Trudi's dwarfism?
10. What does the narrator's mother learn when she returns to the convent after starting labor?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the following:
1. Who is/are the protagonists of Floating in My Mother's Palm and why?
2. Who is/are the antagonists of the story and why?
3. Which 3 secondary characters have the greatest impact on the plot?
4. Are any of the characters dispensable and which ones? Why or why not?
5. Do you think this is a character-driven plot or an action-driven plot? Explain.
Essay Topic 2
Oftentimes, a book has more of a character-driven plot rather than action driven, and oftentimes the other way. Some books seem to balance the two. Discuss the following:
1. What do you think it means to say that a plot is character driven? Action driven?
2. How do you think a plot differs if it is character driven versus action driven?
3. Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why?
4. Do you think it is possible to have a plot where action and character development share equal time? Why or why not.
5. What type of plot do you think Floating in My Mother's Palm is? Explain your response.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss one of the following:
1. Thoroughly analyze how the setting informs the plot in Floating in My Mother's Palm.
2. Trace and analyze one major theme of Floating in My Mother's Palm. How is the theme represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?
3. Trace and analyze two secondary themes of Floating in My Mother's Palm. How are the themes represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?
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