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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. How are Roya and Parvin related?
2. What did both Mayako and Yumiko’s father’s do after the Manchuria Incident?
3. Who does Mai see sitting between an older couple at the beginning of “The Boat”?
4. How old was Parvin when her family was forced into hiding?
5. What does Roya tell Sarah she can get for her if she would like because she knows where her parents keep it?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where is Mayako at the beginning of “Hirsoshima” and what is she doing with the other girls per Mrs. Sasaki’s orders?
2. Describe some of the sensory details in the first lines of “The Boat” when Mai is on the boat during the storm.
3. What happens to the bodies of those who die on the boat?
4. Who is Roya and what role does she take in regards to Sarah’s visit to Parvin’s parent’s villa?
5. How crowded is the boat as described on p. 247 of “The Boat”?
6. Who is Anh Phuoc and what does he do on the boat?
7. What was Parvin’s radio program in the states called and what was its purpose?
8. What are Mahmoud and Parvin’s arguments regarding whether the play about the young girl who was killed should be reenacted during Ashura?
9. What is going on the week Sarah arrived in Iran, which Mahmoud tells her is their holiest week?
10. What does Anh Phuoc have in common with Mai’s father?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay analyzing Sarah and Parvin’s relationship and how the changes in their relationship help to develop the overall theme of the story. Be sure to include direct examples from the text.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay comparing and contrasting male / female representation in two or more short stories in Nam Le’s The Boat.
Essay Topic 3
Head injuries are a recurring symbol in Nam Le’s The Boat, for example, Jamie in “HalfLead Bay” and the man in the mourning procession in “Tehran Calling.” Choose one example of a head wound from a story in the Boat an analyze how it develops the overall theme of the story.
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