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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 Bella discover that Edward has purchased?

2. How does Bella see going to college as being useful?

3. What does Edward give Alice a Porsche?

4. What has been difficult for members of the werewolf pack?

5. About what does Edward try to appear nonchalant?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Bella go after being with Jacob and how does Edward surprise her?

2. Where does Bella go when Edward is hunting and why doesn't she stay?

3. What does Carlisle the previous weekend?

4. Where does Edward want to take Bella and who thinks it is a good idea at first?

5. Why does Bella decide not to visit Jacob?

6. How does Jacob respond when Bella tells him about the intruder?

7. What does Rosalie tell Bella about concerning becoming a vampire?

8. What do Charlie and Bella do that evening and what is the outcome?

9. Describe the discussion that happens in the Cullen household when Edward takes Bella there after he has inspected her house.

10. What does Jacob tell Bella about imprinting?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss one of the following:

1. Trace and analyze the theme of growth in Eclipse. Consider the following questions as you write: What characters are most concerned with growth? Why? What are some symbols of growth? Symbols of rigidity? What characters seem rigid?

2. Trace and analyze the theme of courage in Eclipse. Which characters struggle with this issue? Why? Which characters seem to possess courage? Why?

3. Trace and analyze the theme of love in Eclipse. Consider love between two species such as vampire and human or werewolf and human as well as the differences between the love in the Cullen family, Jacob's family and human families.

Essay Topic 2

The book ends with plans for a wedding. This gives the reader an idea of what will happen in the next installment of the series. The reader can anticipate the struggles the young couple will face in their decision to marry so young as well as some of the dangers that might lurk for them. Bella tries to exist in a world she does not fully understand with rules that do not allow for her to survive with so much knowledge of that world.

1. Discuss some of the struggles Bella and Edward might experience with Edward having been a vampire for so long and Bella will be new to that form of life. Use examples from Eclipse and your own life to support your answer.

2. Discuss some of the struggles that Bella and Edward might experience due to the difference in their age and experience of the world. Use examples from Eclipse and your own life to support your answer.

3. Do you think Bella should wait a few years to become a vampire so that she is older and, hopefully wiser and more experienced when she makes such a decision? Why or why not? Use examples from Eclipse and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss one of the following:

1. Thoroughly analyze how the setting informs the plot in Eclipse.

2. Trace and analyze one major theme of Eclipse. How is the theme represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?

3. Trace and analyze two secondary themes of Eclipse. How are the themes represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?

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