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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 Jack notice about the person he sees in the window when he returns home in Chapter 2?
2. Where does Jack go after refusing to strip to be examined to play the sex game?
3. What is distracting Jack from realizing his father's condition as the two work on a project together?
4. Where do the men drop the delivery they take to Jack's house?
5. What does Jack do after the ambulance takes his father?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do Jack's parents argue about in Chapter 1? What does his mother demand and what is his father's reaction?
2. After they go back inside the house, what plans for Mother's body do the three older siblings discuss?
3. What was Jack doing and why does he run off at the end of Chapter 2?
4. Why does Tom get picked on at school?
5. What do Jack and his sisters do for fun on the night their parents argue in Chapter 1?
6. Why, in Chapter 2, does Jack begin to avoid Mother?
7. What do Julie and Jack do with sand and how long does it take?
8. How does Jack release tension in the garden at the beginning of Chapter 4? Why does he stop?
9. What happens when Julie covers Mother's body with a sheet?
10. How does Jack's acne problem affect him socially?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Define rising action as an element of plot. Discuss in detail the rising action in The Cement Garden. How did it flow? How did the rising action add to the suspense of the story, or did it?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the point of view from which the novel is written. Does this point of view make the story more or less believable? Select a different point of view and explain how this novel would have changed if written from it.
Essay Topic 3
What are static and dynamic characters? Name the static and dynamic characters in this novel and discuss what about each makes them either static or dynamic.
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