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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. What does Brian say to Noah about the seven minutes to heaven game in Chapter Three?

2. What are Jude’s Flying Women, as said in Chapter One?

3. What do Noah and Jude realize by the end of Chapter One?

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

5. What does Noah think his mom is as said in Chapter One?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Grandmother Sweetwine tell Noah and Jude when she read their palms as said in Chapter One? How does Noah see what she reads in Jude?

2. What does Sandy tell Jude about working in stone in Chapter Two? Why does Jude think is a sign about this?

3. What does Noah see at Brian’s going away party in Chapter Three that amazes him? How does he feel? Why does he feel this way?

4. Why does Sandy tell Jude she got into CSA in Chapter Two? Why does this surprise Jude?

5. Why do the students at CSA call Jude “Calamity Jane/Jude” as said in Chapter Two? Why is this nickname not Jude's fault?

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

7. What does Noah do when Jude takes Brian into the closet for seven minutes of heaven in Chapter Three?

8. Why does Jude go to Devil’s Drop in Chapter Two? What does she think about seeing Noah jump off Devil’s Drop?

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

10. How is Jude’s relationship with her mother in Chapter Three? How is her relationship with Noah?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When Oscar opens up to Jude, she thinks, “I understand the quicksand of shame” (234). How is shame a quicksand for these two characters? And what pulls them out of the quicksand? Write three pages with at least four examples from the text.

Essay Topic 2

The novel ends with the words:

“Take a (second or third or fourth) chance.

Remake the world" (371).

Choose two of the characters. How are they able to remake their world? What in themselves or in others allows them to have this second chance? Write three pages with four examples from the novel

Essay Topic 3

Jude says at the end of the novel, “Love does as it undoes. It goes after, with equal tenacity: joy and heartbreak” (355). How is this morality of the novel shown in the characters' journey? Choose two characters and compare this morality to their lives and experiences. How do their experiences add up morally in the end? Write at least four pages with four examples from the novel.

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