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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. In Gemma's fairy tale story, what does the queen name the baby?
2. In Gemma's fairy tale story, what color is the baby's hair?
3. What does the Polish word 'Ksiezniczka' mean in English?
4. What does Becca eat with Stan in Chapter 9?
5. In Gemma's story, at what age will the heroine be when the curse comes to pass?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Gemma tell her granddaughters about the baby born to the King and Queen in the story?
2. What does Becca do in Chapter 2, which he sisters urge her not to?
3. What does Becca admit to her father is the real reason she is going to work in Chapter 8?
4. In Chapter 7, what does Gemma tell Becca she will probably lose interest in after she starts school?
5. After Sylvia and Shana have left in Chapter 2, what does Gemma tell Becca, and make Becca promise to do?
6. In Chapter 6, why does Becca suppose Gemma was so caught up with the part of her story which said the curse would affect Briar Rose's whole family?
7. Besides the document with an unknown name on it, what is inside the carved box which had belonged to Gemma?
8. What does Becca's father remind her of when she says she is going to work in Chapter 8?
9. Where are Becca's work offices housed? What were Becca's first 'real' articles at the Advocate about?
10. In Chapter 5, what frightens Becca's friend?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is an allegory? How is the novel "Briar Rose" an allegory of the sufferings experienced by those imprisoned in concentration and extermination camps during WWII?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the motif of family in the novel "Briar Rose". Who are the member of Becca's family? Is family important to Becca? How does Becca's family affect her decisions and actions? Describe Becca's relationship with her sisters and grandmother.
Essay Topic 3
Describe Becca's promise to her grandmother and her quest to follow through on her promise. What is the promise, and why is it so important that Becca find the answers she needs? How does she go about fulfilling her promise to Gemma?
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