Wave (novel) Quiz

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Directions: Click on the correct answer.

Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

Why was the song Alison significant to Steve and Deraniyagala while they were getting acquainted? (from Part 8)

It was the first song to which they danced.

Steve had first thought Sonali's name was Alison.

Alison is an anagram for Sonali.

It was the first song Steve sang to Sonali.

2.

Why did Deraniyagala not stop to knock on her parents' hotel room door as they ran from the wave? (from Part 1, “Yala, Sri Lanka, December 26, 2004”)

She decided to try to call using her cell phone.

She thought Steve had notified them.

She knew it would slow them down.

She thought they were not there.

3.

Why did Deraniyagala relapse into her depression in her New York apartment? (from Part 5)

Someone asked her about her family.

She was homesick.

She stopped taking her antidepressant.

She realized she had lost the stability of her life.

4.

Why did Deraniyagala's mother have the pond in Deraniyagala's childhood home filled in? (from Part 7)

Because it overflowed when it rained.

Because the pond leaked under the floors.

Because it was too much work.

Because she did not like the fish.

5.

Why did Deraniyagala not want to sleep in the days after the tsunami? (from Part 1, “Colombo, The First Six Months After”)

She did not want to miss any word that any of her family had survived.

She was afraid she would dream about the wave.

She was afraid she might die in her sleep.

She was afraid when she woke she would forget that her family was dead.

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