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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. Which of the following words does Leigh recognize as Brian and Waipo talk after they arrive in Taipei from the United States?
2. Which of the following does Feng bring with her when she first meets Leigh?
3. To which of the following does Leigh presume Brian compares her artwork?
4. To which of the following birds does Leigh compare the bird she believes Dorothy became?
5. Which of the following examples of “silly childhood rhyme” does Leigh recall when walking out of Dorothy’s funeral (14)?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Leigh describe the stain left behind after the initial cleanup from Dorothy’s suicide?
2. Why does Brian note Leigh should not have received the box she reports receiving from the bird Dorothy became?
3. On her way to Taipei from the United States, Leigh muses on encroaching coldness. She offers two ideas about it; what are they?
4. Why does Leigh excuse Axel’s “sucking up” to Dorothy (90)?
5. What present does Axel give Leigh for her fourteenth birthday?
6. What reasons does Leigh note for doubting her grandmother’s favorable description of her?
7. How does Leigh imagine Axel composing in response to the park she visits with Waipo on her first full day in Taipei?
8. What are bwabwei in the novel?
9. How is what had been Dorothy’s favorite Taoist temple described when Leigh approaches it?
10. What reason is given to Leigh for the change to the pastry shop’s logo?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Sources attest to the presence of The Astonishing Color of After on best-seller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of the novel? How does it do so?
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 “It calms me to see everything more clearly, to note the sharp corners of the piano bench, the straightness of the curtains draping down against the window” (36)? Why might Leigh take comfort from straight, sharp edges? What in the text and in experience suggests that reason? How does it do so?
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