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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 is the home of the Filipino president called?

2. What do all the neighbors call the old man who sings "My Way" in "Everyone Loses Their Shit"?

3. What is Shabu said to be in "New Life"?

4. Where does Tita Chato say Tito Danilo is in "Bravery As If it Were My Own"?

5. Where do Jay's grandparents live?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Jay's memory/flashback significant in “Headfirst Across the Muddy Grass"?

2. What poem is discussed in “This Poem is a Typhoon"? How does the poem affect Jay?

3. Where do Jay and Mia go in “The Wide Eyes of the Lost"? Who goes with them?

4. How and when did Jun leave Reyna?

5. Where do Jay's aunts take him in “To Flood"? How is this setting described?

6. Where are Jay and Tito Maning when Jay confronts his uncle about Jun's death in “That Last Part Aloud"? Why is this significant?

7. What causes Jay guilt in relation to Jun and Jun's death?

8. When was Reyna separated from her family? How and why did this happen?

9. How did Reyna meet Jun?

10. Where did Jun go after his father kicked him out of his home? For how long did he stay there?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze and discuss the character of Grace in Patron Saints of Nothing. What is Grace's relationship to Jay? How does their relationship evolve in the course of the narrative? What are Grace's objectives in the novel? Does she achieve those objectives?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the narrative style of Patron Saints of Nothing. From what perspective is the story related? In what tense is it related? Why is this narrative style important to the work?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss the setting of Lolo and Lola's home. In what village do Lolo and Lola live? How does this landscape differ from the cityscapes that Jay has visited in Manila? What are Jay's observations about this setting?

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