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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. In which of the following rooms of Fred’s bed and breakfast do Leigh and Waipo stay?
2. Which of the following colors of tea does Yuanyang pour for her uncle at the Lunar New Year?
3. Which of the following does Leigh find in the old cardboard boxes through which she searches?
4. Which of the following does Tina cook for Dorothy and Leigh after Dorothy calls 911 on herself?
5. Which of the following colors does Leigh associate with separation from Axel?
Short Essay Questions
1. With what conversation does Tina attempt to distract Dorothy and Leigh after Dorothy calls 911 on herself?
2. What reasons does Leigh cite for needing to find Feng on the forty-fourth day after Dorothy’s death?
3. What reasons does Leigh cite in the summer before her sophomore year for going out with Axel and Caro?
4. What story do Axel and Leanne tell about jazz band?
5. What reasons does Yuanyang have for thinking agricultural work easier than schooling?
6. How does Leigh apologize to Feng?
7. What are the contents of Dorothy’s birthday gift to an eight-year-old Leigh?
8. What does Axel posit would happen if art were stripped from Leigh?
9. What challenges does Leigh note in reading the letter to her mother she opened?
10. What reasons does Leigh give for demurring to open the letters to her mother?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What significance does Nagori’s misreading of Leigh’s hesitation about submitting to an international art contest have. (He thinks it stems from concerns about the submission fee, rather than parental opposition [296].) How does that significance emerge?
Essay Topic 2
Consider the epigraph from Emily Dickinson: “If I should see a single bird.” Typically, epigraphs suggest one or more of the themes of the works they introduce. Does the epigraph on The Astonishing Color of After effectively suggest one or more of the novel’s themes? If so, how? If not, what purpose does the epigraph serve, and how does it achieve it?
Essay Topic 3
Leigh repeatedly calls attention to cracks in reality that appear only in brief flashes. Explicate the imagery of those cracks.
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