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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. Where does Becca fall asleep in Chapter 6?

2. What is being made into a museum as of Chapter 8?

3. What is the name of the Oswego newspaper where one of the articles in the box is from?

4. What does Becca do at the nursing home as soon as she arrives in Chapter 2?

5. Why does Becca seek out one of the clerks at the town hall in Chapter 9?

Short Essay Questions

1. What name does Becca have for her car in Chapter 2? Why has she named her car?

2. When she investigates her grandmother's newspaper clippings, what does Becca learn from Arnie at the Palladium Times in Oswego?

3. In Chapter 4, what do we learn about Gemma's past?

4. What does Gemma tell her granddaughters about the baby born to the King and Queen in the story?

5. What does Becca's father remind her of when she says she is going to work in Chapter 8?

6. In Chapter 7, what does Gemma tell Becca she will probably lose interest in after she starts school?

7. What does Becca admit to her father is the real reason she is going to work in Chapter 8?

8. What is different about Gemma's version of Briar Rose's story from the traditional version?

9. How does Becca explain having never seen Gemma's carved box before in Chapter 8?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The story of Sleeping Beauty is used as an allegory for Gemma's experiences during the war. Discuss Gemma's version of the Sleeping Beauty story compared to the traditional Sleeping Beauty story.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the author of the novel "Briar Rose", Jane Yolen. What others works has she written? What similarities or connections can be found between this novel and Yolen's other work? How is she regarded in the literary world?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze and interpret the protagonist of the novel, Becca Berlin. What are Becca's defining character traits? Who is she close to in the novel? What happens to Becca throughout the novel?

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