This document provides an overview and guidance for revising the AS Level text "Snow Falling on Cedars" by David Guterson. It outlines what the exam involves, provides example quotations from the text with missing words to practice recall, and suggests essay topics the quotations could be used to support. The document emphasizes interpreting the text, analyzing language and structure, and demonstrating a holistic understanding of the narrative through a consistent argument.
2. Main Menu There are two ways to navigate through this learning resource. you can use the arrow buttons at the bottom left to run through the entire package or you can use this menu and the return to menu button at the top right to use the quick jump feature. What does the exam involve? Quotations and activity 1& Using quotations and activity 2 Points to remember
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6. “ men had their fantasies of a passionate Japan…” Question Time! Q 1/15 White American All Incorrect – Try Again Correct – Click here to continue
7. “ don’t mix.” Question Time! Q 2/15 Cultures People Oceans Incorrect – Try Again Correct – Click here to continue
8. “ Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on .” Question Time! Q 3/15 impulse instinct reason Incorrect – Try Again Correct – Click here to continue
9. “ The snowfall… struck him [Kabuo] as infinitely .” Question Time! Q 4/15 destructive cold beautiful Incorrect – Try Again Correct – Click here to continue
10. “… this is how the passed, with her life arrested, on hold.” Question Time! Q 5/15 spring summer autumn Incorrect – Try Again Correct – Click here to continue
11. “… she developed a secret life that her…” Question Time! Q 6/15 fulfilled excited disturbed Incorrect – Try Again Correct – Click here to continue
12. “ He then that he would love her forever…” Question Time! Q 7/15 hoped realised decided Incorrect – Try Again Correct – Click here to continue
13. “… five nights in a row he spied .” Question Time! Q 8/15 enthusiastically curiously religiously Incorrect – Try Again Correct – Click here to continue
14. “ You haven’t done anything illegal... is a different matter.” Question Time! Q 9/15 Right Justice Wrong Incorrect – Try Again Correct – Click here to continue
15. “ He knew himself privately to be guilty of ...” Question Time! Q 10/15 deception manslaughter murder Incorrect – Try Again Correct – Click here to continue
16. “… it [the snow]… their view of everything.” Question Time! Q 11/15 obscured effected foreshortened Incorrect – Try Again Correct – Click here to continue
17. “ If identity was instead of blood… then Ishmael was a part of her…” Question Time! Q 12/15 culture upbringing geography Incorrect – Try Again Correct – Click here to continue
18. “… since the war he couldn’t .” Question Time! Q 13/15 forget relax speak Incorrect – Try Again Correct – Click here to continue
19. “ His brain... did not fully grasp… that was gone.” Question Time! Q 14/15 her love Hatsue the arm Incorrect – Try Again Correct – Click here to continue
20. “ The snowfall obliterated the borders between the …” Question Time! Q 15/15 community cultures fields Incorrect – Try Again Correct – Click here to continue
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23. Question Time! “ The inside of the tree felt private.” This could be used in an essay about: the weather or Hatsue. the landscape or Hatsue and Ishmael. race or Ishmael. Q 1/12 Incorrect – Try Again Correct – Click here to continue
24. Question Time! “ We’re not such paupers as to sell to Japs, are we?” This could be used in an essay about: Carl Heine or justice. the Heines or race. the war or Kabuo. Q 2/12 Incorrect – Try Again Correct – Click here to continue
25. Question Time! “ In his face, he knew, was his fate…” the quotation that I would choose is: race or accident and chance. Ishmael or justice. Kabuo or Hatsue. Q 3/12 Incorrect – Try Again Correct – Click here to continue
26. Question Time! “… he allowed himself to believe that his feelings for Hatsue had been somehow preordained.” This could be used in an essay about: religion or Hatsue. desire or Kabuo. Ishmael or accident. Q 4/12 Incorrect – Try Again Correct – Click here to continue
27. Question Time! “ The war did not disturb them there...” This could be used in an essay about: the war or Carl. secrecy or guilt. the landscape or Hatsue and Ishmael. Q 5/12 Incorrect – Try Again Correct – Click here to continue
28. Question Time! “ The world was incomprehensibly intricate, and yet this forest made a simple sense…” This could be used in an essay about: Hatsue or the environment. Ishmael or innocence. love or war. Q 6/12 Incorrect – Try Again Correct – Click here to continue
29. Question Time! “… she’d chosen to part because in his arms she felt unwhole.” This could be used in an essay about: culture or Ishmael and Hatsue. Hatsue or justice. Ishmael or hate. Q 7/12 Incorrect – Try Again Correct – Click here to continue
30. Question Time! “… I don’t hate Japs, but I don’t like ‘em neither. ” This could be used in an essay about: Carl Heine or Hatsue. the war or Carl and Kabuo. justice or Kabuo. Q 8/12 Incorrect – Try Again Correct – Click here to continue
31. Question Time! “ I wonder if we should even expect fairness...” This could be used in an essay about: Kabuo or accident. the war or anger. Hatsue and Ishmael or justice. Q 9/12 Incorrect – Try Again Correct – Click here to continue
32. Question Time! “ To the Japanese soldier a life in defeat was not for a moment worth living…” This could be used in an essay about: Kabuo or Hatsue. honour or culture. the war or guilt. Q 10/12 Incorrect – Try Again Correct – Click here to continue
33. Question Time! “… the sea, in the end, made no sense to him.” This could be used in an essay about: fishing and farming or the landscape. Kabuo or accident. Carl or culture. Q 11/12 Incorrect – Try Again Correct – Click here to continue
34. Question Time! “… the world was silent and cold and bare and that in this lay its terrible beauty.” This could be used in an essay about: snow and chance. Kabuo or injustice. Ishmael or culture. Q 12/12 Incorrect – Try Again Correct – Click here to continue
