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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 are the silver tunnelers brought from to dig passages beneath the walls of Constantinople?

2. How many kids come to Seymour's first meeting of the Enviro-Awareness Club?

3. How tall is the fence around the Argos?

4. To what palace does the hoopoe suggest Aethon go when he seems discontent?

5. When it is Konstance's 14th birthday, how many days has she been in the vault?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Seymour access someone when he is trying to reach Bishop?

2. What does Anna smell the next morning when she pushes her way through a forest?

3. Where does Anna find herself after the skiff overturns?

4. Where does Omeir put Anna's things before he takes her home?

5. What information does Konstance find about Zeno in the library?

6. What four-mile trip do Omeir and his oxen have to make as the days of the siege turn to weeks?

7. Why can Konstance not access the library on Day 21 inside Vault One?

8. What does Zeno learn by working with the children on a play about Aethon?

9. Why does Omeir decide to have Anna travel with him?

10. How does Seymour get internet for the computer Bunny buys him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Colors are sometimes associated with mood. If you could assign a color to represent the mood of Cloud Cuckoo Land what color would it be? Why? Would you choose different colors to describe the mood in different sections?

Essay Topic 2

Doerr uses a non-linear narrative structure in Cloud Cuckoo Land. How does the story move back and forth in time and between characters? How does this build tension and mystery in the narrative?

Essay Topic 3

Why is Omeir feared? What role does superstition play in how Omeir’s deformity is viewed?

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