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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. As which of the following does Leigh gloss “yao” in the novel?
2. Which of the following does Brian bring as a gift for Waipo?
3. As which of the following colors does Leigh interpret her anger at Brian’s departure from her grandparents’ home?
4. Which of the following does Leigh note available for sale along the path to what had been Dorothy’s favorite Taoist temple?
5. As which of the following colors does Leigh interpret Brian’s voice?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Brian note Leigh should not have received the box she reports receiving from the bird Dorothy became?
2. How does Leigh contrast Axel’s appearance at the funeral with his usual appearance?
3. What reasons does Leigh give for sleeping on the downstairs sofa?
4. How does Leigh recognize that the first memory she encounters in the first “Smoke & Memories” chapter is her mother’s?
5. What reasons does Leigh give for asserting that the body in the casket is not her mother?
6. What reasons does Leigh cite for thinking Two Point Fives Day “was supposed to be celebratory” (1)?
7. What present does Axel give Leigh for her fourteenth birthday?
8. What is Leigh’s reaction to meeting Caro’s family?
9. What does Leigh note as of interest in the park she visits with Waipo on her first full day in Taipei?
10. How does Leigh describe Waipo upon meeting her?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explicate the imagery of the cicada that permeates the novel.
Essay Topic 2
Notably, Leigh’s art teacher is given the title “Dr.” Few if any of her other teachers are. What significance attaches itself to her art teacher having a terminal degree? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 3
Leigh notes that “Some terrible requirement of being a teenager is being absolutely awful when your parents are being lovely” (299). Is her assertion correct? What in the novel and in experience suggests that it is or is not, and how does it do so?
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