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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 Alexandras Lukas' job?
2. What does Lina steal?
3. What does Elena say in her letters?
4. What payment does the bald man ask in return for revealing the secret?
5. Why are the prisoners given more food than usual?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the story behind the stone that Jonas gives Andrius?
2. What news does Mrs. Rimas recieve in a letter and how is it coded?
3. How does Andrius and a Siberian woman help save Jonas' life?
4. What does Lina learn from the bald man about their captivity?
5. What does Lina observe about Andrius' mother when Lina slips away after eating her potato that Jonas brought?
6. What does Andrius say about his mother and why she is doing what she does?
7. What does Lina wonder when an American ship arrives?
8. What does Elena have Lina do for Mr. Stalas, and what is Lina's response to the task?
9. What happens to Jonas?
10. Why are the prisoners waked in the middle of the night and what do they do?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Characters are an integral and important part of almost all novels. Discuss the following:
1. Compare/contrast the characters of Lina and Elena. How are they similar? How are they different? Is there a flaw in each of their personalities? Be specific and give examples.
2. Compare/contrast the characters of Elena and Andrius' mother. How do they seem different? Which do you like more? Why? Which one seems more of a well-rounded character?
3. Thoroughly analyze how three of the secondary characters in Between Shades of Gray help drive the plot and what their contribution is to the storyline. Are any of the secondary characters unnecessary? Indispensable? Which of the secondary characters are likable? Which are either unlikable or even despicable? Be specific and give examples.
Essay Topic 2
Often, authors will write about "what they know," and sometimes knowing a little about the author makes the books more interesting. Discuss the following:
1. Research and give a brief biographical sketch of Ruta Sepetys.
2. What in Sepetys's background may have helped her in writing "Between Shades of Gray"? What may have influenced the way she depicts various characters and scenes?
3. Do you think there is always some of the author's own life in his/her novels? Why or why not? Give examples.
Essay Topic 3
Oftentimes, a book has more of a character-driven plot rather than action driven, and oftentimes the other way. Some books seem to balance the two. Discuss the following:
1. What do you think it means to say that a plot is character driven? Action driven?
2. How do you think a plot differs if it is character driven versus action driven?
3. Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why?
4. Do you think it is possible to have a plot where action and character development share equal time? Why or why not.
5. What type of plot do you think Between Shades of Gray is? Explain your response.
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