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(36E5D)
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QUESTION 1 zm
The Sympathizer (2016)
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ANSWER
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compared to Graham Greene and Saul Bellow, The Sympathizer is a sweeping epic of love and betr
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ayal. The narrator, a communist double agent, is a "man of two minds," a half-French, half-
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ng a new life with other Vietnamese refugees in Los Angeles is secretly reporting back to his comm
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unist superiors in Vietnam. The Sympathizer is a blistering exploration of identity and America, a gri
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QUESTION 2 zm
The Orphan Master's Son (2013)
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ANSWER
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and an influential father who runs a work camp for orphans. Superiors in the state soon recognize t
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he world," Jun Do rises in the ranks. He becomes a professional kidnapper who must navigate the s
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hifting rules, arbitrary violence, and baffling demands of his Korean overlords in order to stay alive.
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Driven to the absolute limit of what any human being could endure, he boldly takes on the treacher
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QUESTION 3 zm
A Visit from the Goon Squad (2011)
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, ANSWER
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a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs. With music pulsing on every page, A Vi
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QUESTION 4 zm
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ANSWER
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wine with those of his father, an epileptic, itinerant peddler and his grandfather, a Methodist preach
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er beset by madness. At once heartbreaking and life affirming, Tinkers is an elegiac meditation on lo
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QUESTION 5 zm
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lost the will to live; Olive's own adult child, who feels tyrannized by her irrational sensitivities; and
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her husband, Henry, who finds his loyalty to his marriage both a blessing and a curse. As the towns
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QUESTION 6 zm
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2008)
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ANSWER
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dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never
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Exam Solution zm
Choice Reading Choice Summaries 2026 A+ GRADE ASS zm zm zm zm zm zm zm
URED COMPLETE SOLUTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS zm zm zm zm zm z
(36E5D)
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QUESTION 1 zm
The Sympathizer (2016)
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ANSWER
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he breakthrough novel of the year. With the pace and suspense of a thriller and prose that has been
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compared to Graham Greene and Saul Bellow, The Sympathizer is a sweeping epic of love and betr
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ayal. The narrator, a communist double agent, is a "man of two minds," a half-French, half-
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Vietnamese army captain who arranges to come to America after the Fall of Saigon, and while buildi
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unist superiors in Vietnam. The Sympathizer is a blistering exploration of identity and America, a gri
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QUESTION 2 zm
The Orphan Master's Son (2013)
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ANSWER
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he world," Jun Do rises in the ranks. He becomes a professional kidnapper who must navigate the s
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hifting rules, arbitrary violence, and baffling demands of his Korean overlords in order to stay alive.
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Driven to the absolute limit of what any human being could endure, he boldly takes on the treacher
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QUESTION 3 zm
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woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of
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a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs. With music pulsing on every page, A Vi
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QUESTION 4 zm
Tinkers (2010) zm
ANSWER
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wine with those of his father, an epileptic, itinerant peddler and his grandfather, a Methodist preach
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er beset by madness. At once heartbreaking and life affirming, Tinkers is an elegiac meditation on lo
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QUESTION 5 zm
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her husband, Henry, who finds his loyalty to his marriage both a blessing and a curse. As the towns
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QUESTION 6 zm
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