Module C

Question 1

Motif

Answer 1

“like the stamps from an old album”
all of the missing stamps

Question 2

Cumulative listing STAMP

Answer 2

Of vanished countries: CCCP, Yugoslavia
East Germany, Rhodesia…

Question 3

Evocative tri-colon

Answer 3

( I have) “Forgotten my name, my language, my songs” give expression to …

Inconsolable and palpable loss of home, of family love and connections to ones identity.

Question 4

Ghost of … Author

Answer 4

Rohinton Mistry’s “The Ghost of Firozsha Baag” (1987)

Question 5

Stamp collecting Author/Year

Answer 5

Boey Kim Cheng 1989

Question 6

Motif of photographs

Answer 6

“as the torn photographs of my memories”

“power to mend the torn photographs”

Question 7

Cumulative listing

Answer 7

“The Tohoku region, Sendai, Ishinomaki and Fukuoka”

Question 8

Tri-colon

Answer 8

“I have forgotten my hometown, my language, my happy childhood”

Question 9

Tonal shift STAMP

Answer 9

But in a strange way they are here

Question 10

Tonal shift

Answer 10

But everything changed when my first daughter was born