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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. Who do the police send to work with Jacob?
2. What does Jacob learn about "the Home" when he arrives on the island?
3. Why does Jacob and Ricky's friendship end?
4. What happens to Jacob's grandfather as he ages?
5. Who is Ricky?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Jacob's conversation with Martin Pagett's Uncle Oggie.
2. What does Jacob first find during the exploration of the abandoned Home in Chapter 5?
3. What does Jacob tell his father about his day in Chapter 3, and what is Jacob's father's response?
4. What does Emma do to ensure Jacob's escape from the village people in Chapter 5?
5. Who is with Jacob when he comes to from his faint in Chapter 5 and what do they tell him?
6. How does Jacob open the locked trunk he finds in Chapter 5?
7. What does Jacob say about his grandfather and a special school in the Prologue?
8. Why does Jacob run out of the Priest's Hole in Chapter 5? Who does he encounter, and what does she do?
9. What motivates Jacob to run into the bog near the house in Chapter 5?
10. What does Jacob watch out of the window of the Home in Chapter 6?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Characters are an important part of what makes Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children interesting. Discuss the following:
1. Thoroughly discuss and analyze Jacob. What are his strengths? His weaknesses? How does he contribute to the plot? Is he a sympathetic character? Is he always likable? Never likable? Use specific examples to illustrate your ideas.
2. Thoroughly discuss and analyze the character of Emma. What are her strengths? Her weaknesses? How does she contribute to the plot? Is she a sympathetic character? Is she ever likable? Never likable? Use specific examples to illustrate your ideas.
3. Thoroughly discuss and analyze the character of Miss Peregrine. What are her strengths? Her weaknesses? How does she contribute to the plot? Is she a sympathetic character? Is she ever likable? Never likable? Use specific examples to illustrate your ideas.
Essay Topic 2
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children belongs to the fantasy genre. Discuss the following:
1. Define the literary term "genre" and give several examples of three other genres in addition to the fantasy genre.
2. Discuss two reasons why it might be useful to label a text by genre and two reasons it might be disadvantageous to label a text by genre.
3. What do you think is the difference between a fantasy and a historical novel mystery?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss one of the following:
1. Trace and analyze the theme of growth in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Consider the following questions as you write: What characters are most concerned with growth? Why? What are some symbols of growth? Symbols of rigidity? What characters seem rigid?
2. Trace and analyze the theme of courage in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Which characters struggle with this issue? Why? Which characters seem to possess courage? Why?
3. Trace and analyze the theme of death in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Who has died a physical death? Were their deaths necessary to the story? Who has died a metaphorical death? In what way was the metaphorical death occurring?
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