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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. How does Edward react to what Bella tells him after graduation?

2. Who turns Jasper to a vampire?

3. What alibi does Alice create for Bella?

4. What makes Alice and Bella begin to feel fearful?

5. What do Edward and Jacob do as Bella goes to sleep?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Carlisle ask for help in fighting the newborn army in Seattle and why do they say no?

2. Why is Alice angry with Bella and how does Bella appease her?

3. What does Jacob give Bella?

4. About what do Edward and Jacob talk?

5. Describe the fight with Victoria and the other vampire.

6. What happens between Jacob and Bella and how does Edward respond?

7. What surprises Bella about the werewolf pack and why does Jacob change back to human form?

8. What does Edward say about Bella becoming a vampire?

9. What does Jasper demonstrate and what do the werewolves do after Jasper is finished with his demonstrations?

10. What does Bella realize about several situations going on at the moment and how do Bella and Alice feel about Bella's realization?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 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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