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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 is Jacob's job in his family's business?

2. What seems to attract most of Jacob's father's attention?

3. What is one photograph Abe shows Jacob?

4. Where does Jacob's grandfather tell Jacob to go in Chapter 1?

5. What does Jacob say he will do when his grandfather calls?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is with Jacob when he comes to from his faint in Chapter 5 and what do they tell him?

2. How does Jacob open the locked trunk he finds in Chapter 5?

3. What motivates Jacob to run into the bog near the house in Chapter 5?

4. What does Jacob tell his father about his day in Chapter 3, and what is Jacob's father's response?

5. What does Emma do to ensure Jacob's escape from the village people in Chapter 5?

6. How does Jacob get to his grandfather's house in Chapter 1, and what does he see along the way?

7. What does Jacob first find during the exploration of the abandoned Home in Chapter 5?

8. What does Jacob watch out of the window of the Home in Chapter 6?

9. How do Jacob's parents try to calm Jacob after his grandfather’s death and what does he think of the effort?

10. Where is Jacob when his grandfather calls him in Chapter 1 and what does the grandfather want?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the following:

1. What is a plot? What are the most important elements of a plot and their definition? Do all novels have a plot? Why or why not?

2. Write a brief synopsis of the plot of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, identifying where the various elements of the plot occur (Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution or denouement). Do you find it difficult to identify the elements of the plot? Why or why not? What about the various elements of the plot?

3. Identify the major sub-plots and their elements in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. (The subplots may not contain every element of a major plot). Do the sub-plots add to the main plot? Why or why not? Are the sub-plots interesting in and of themselves? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

The characters of a story serve as its backbone. Characters can be protagonists, antagonists, foils, or anti-heroes. Discuss the following:

1. Who is/are the protagonists of the story and why?

2. Who is/are the antagonists of the story and why?

3. Which three secondary characters have the greatest impact on the plot?

4. Are any of the characters dispensable and which ones? Why or why not?

5. Do you think this is a character-driven plot or an action-driven plot? Explain.

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