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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. When had Grandma Sweetwine first started appearing to Jude as said in Chapter Two?

2. What happened when Noah and Jude’s dad had taken them to Devil’s Drop as said in Chapter Three?

3. What does Noah call the girls that Jude hangs out with as said in Chapter Three?

4. What had Jude’s counselor said before Jude had stopped seeing her as said in Chapter Two?

5. What is the title of Jude’s piece at art critique in Chapter Two?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sandy ask Jude in his office in Chapter Two? What does Jude say in response?

2. Why does Jude decide to swear off of Oscar in Chapter Three? What does she find in his jacket at the end of the chapter?

3. How has Jude’s dad become after their mother’s death as said in Chapter Three?

4. What happens when Jude knocks each time on Guillermo’s studio in Chapter Two?

5. What does Jude initially tell Guillermo she wants to sculpt in Chapter Three? Why does she want to sculpt this?

6. What is the “Invisible Museum” of Chapter One? How do we learn this?

7. How do Noah and Brian become friends in Chapter Three? How does Noah think of Brian?

8. Why is Jude on a boy fast as said in Chapter Two? What does she do to keep up the boy fast?

9. What happens with the seven minutes to heaven game played at Brian’s going away party in Chapter Three?

10. What does Guillermo tell Jude about drawing in Chapter Three as she draws Oscar? What does he have her do while she is learning?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Think about the paragraph in Chapter Eight, where Jude speaks about how people are constantly accumulating different selves and are just “wobbly people poles” (354). How does this idea connect to how the novel is structured? Use at least three examples from the text to answer the question.

Essay Topic 2

How is grief shown as affecting Noah? How is it shown as affecting Jude? How is it shown as affecting their father? Write an exploratory essay showing how grief manifests in each of these characters. Include how their grief overlaps or how the grief of one character affects or is interpreted by another character. What sets the grief free for each of the characters? Write a summative claim about what the novel is showing about the experience of grief.

Essay Topic 3

Jude says in Chapter Five, about Noah, “We’re never going to be us again” (209). But by the end of the novel, Jude and Noah have come back together. Trace their evolution as siblings throughout the novel in three pages with five textual examples. Answer the question: What does their changing relationship and eventual coming back together say about the nature of siblings relationships?

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