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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 are the pharmacy workers talking about?

2. What does Mei steal from her father's cabinet?

3. How much does land cost on Garden Road?

4. Where is Mr. Chang's wife?

5. What does the man offer to buy the girl?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of moving home?

2. Why is Ailin alone?

3. What is the nature of their secrets?

4. What is Number Three, Garden Road about?

5. Why is the woman unmarried?

6. How is Ailin made to blame by her friends?

7. How does the story end?

8. What is the girl's situation?

9. What connects the women?

10. What is Sweeping Past about?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the differences between a novel and a short story in terms of the following?

1. Language.

2. Character.

3. Structure.

Essay Topic 2

What do the the failed marriages symbolize in context of the story? What meaning does it give to each story where a marriage has not worked out?

Essay Topic 3

What do the character's problems with finding happiness teach them about life? How do they react to life's challenges? Does anyone in the book actually find happiness?

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