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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 happens to the writer's finger last week?

2. How does Bernard respond when he is called a "Victim of the Vietnam war?"

3. While Leigh-Cheri and Gulietta are gone, what are the King and Queen struggling with in Chapter Thirty?

4. As Leigh-Cheri stands in the sun watching the conference speaker, what is the shadow that falls over her?

5. What is amusing about Benard's bartender job?

Short Essay Questions

1. What question does the People magazine journalist, Reed Jarvis, ask Leigh-Cheri that ends up bringing tears to her eyes as she responds?

2. How is Leigh-Cheri described by the local media?

3. What groups, many of which make their home on Maui, want to participate in the Care Fest and why?

4. Why does Montana Judy, Bernard's outlaw girlfriend, turn him in to the police? What happens to him because he was turned in?

5. In Chapter Eleven, what is revealed about Leigh-Cheri's relationship with her parents?

6. What is wrong with the color of the writer's typewriter?

7. How do they say, "Have a nice day," in the writer's country?

8. In Chapters Seven and Eight, what is learned about the people around Leigh-Cheri?

9. What do the metaphors used in the Prologue tell the reader about what the writer wants to provide for them?

10. Why is Leigh-Cheri so upset when she returns to the boat where Bernard was staying?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Leigh-Cheri learn from her solitary existence in the attic?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the effectiveness of the way Chapter Thrity-Nine is written by jumping back and forth between two difference scenes.

Essay Topic 3

What is the symbolism of the bedtime story that was read to Leigh-Cheri every night until she was fifteen?

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