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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. For how long has Ada been dead in the Prologue?
2. What does Ora feel happens when she writes?
3. What does Rami need?
4. Why does Ora's body hurt?
5. What does Ora tell Avram she cannot do?
Short Essay Questions
1. What makes Avram think he wants to marry Ora?
2. Why does Ora want Sami to make the trip and how does she try to ease the tension as they are driving?
3. What does Sami say when he returns to the phone?
4. What does Ora tell Avram they are going to do and what is his response?
5. Why does he yell at her to be quiet and how does she react?
6. What does Ora worry about concerning Avram, but what does she believe about him?
7. What does he find the next night when he returns to her room and what do they do?
8. What does Ora do with the young boy and what does Sami say about him?
9. What is Akiva doing when Ora and Avram meet him and what does he suggest to them? What is their response?
10. How does Sami react when Ora drags Avram to the car?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss one of the following:
1. Define irony in literary terms. Discuss the irony of the situation of how Ora says Avram is her soul mate and yet she marries Ilan.
2. Define symbolism in literary terms. Discuss the use and meaning of five symbols you choose to analyze from "To the End of the Land". What do they symbolize? Is the symbolism obvious? Effective? Does the symbolism contribute to the enjoyment of reading?
3. Discuss five literary devices that occur in "To the End of the Land" and how they are used. Are they effective? Do they add or detract from the reading of the book? Why or why not. Some possible techniques: Allusion, connotation, denouement, dialogue, flashback, figurative language, motif, metaphor, narrator, point of view, simile, mood, and puns.
Essay Topic 2
Ora, Ilan and Avram have a relationship among them that is complex and perhaps difficult for the reader to understand and/or accept. Discuss the following:
1. Thoroughly trace and analyze Ora's relationship with Avram. How does it develop? What does each offer the other? Is it a fully healthy relationship? Or is parts of it dysfunctional? What does each person gain from the relationship? How important is the relationship to each of them?
2. Thoroughly trace and analyze Ora's relationship with Ilan. How does it develop? What does each offer the other? Is it a fully healthy relationship? Or is parts of it dysfunctional? What does each person gain from the relationship? How important is the relationship to each of them?
3. Thoroughly trace and analyze Ilan's relationship with Avram. How does it develop? What does each offer the other? Is it a fully healthy relationship? Or is parts of it dysfunctional? What does each person gain from the relationship? How important is the relationship to each of them?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the following:
1. What do you think are the characteristics of a successful novel?
2. Analyze and discuss "To the End of the Land" based upon the criteria you decide upon in #1 and judge if "To the End of the Land" is a successful novel.
3. Do you think the criteria for a successful novel should be different if it is written soley for entertainment versus one that is meant to be thought provoking? Why or why not? Would most readers consider "To the End of the Land" a successful novel?
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