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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 many different times has Joaquin been asked to leave a foster home for one reason or another?
2. Joaquin knows that he had been placed in foster care by whom?
3. The night Lauren asks Maya about their parents' possible divorce, what thought keeps Maya awake all night?
4. When Mark and Linda wake Joaquin from a nightmare, for whom do they say he had been calling in his sleep?
5. How does Ana react to Joaquin's news that he has broken up with Birdie?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are a few characteristics of the adoptive parents Grace chooses for Peach and what is one detail about them that particularly pleases her?
2. What does Janie's purse symbolize upon Grace's return to high school?
3. What causes Grace to lie to Maya and Joaquin about her lengthy absence from school?
4. What has always been the strategy Grace's parents have used in regards to her status as an adopted child?
5. What lie does Grace tell Maya and Joaquin about her lengthy absence from school?
6. What favor does the teacher's aide for Joaquin's class ask Joaquin to do around Christmastime?
7. What does Grace whisper over and over to her unborn child and how does the detail depict the novel's themes of guilt and responsibility?
8. What reasons are given for Maya's love of the Disney film version of Alice in Wonderland and how does her perspective on her favorite scene change over time?
9. What does the tattoo across the shoulders of one of Joaquin's older foster brothers symbolize?
10. How does Grace spend homecoming night of her junior year, and how does the night differ from her previous expectations?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
William Faulkner once famously claimed that the most important literature deals with the subject of the human heart in conflict with itself. Explain how the theme of Human versus Self is demonstrated within Robin Benway's novel Far From the Tree. Create a decisive, arguable claim and prove it with quotes from the book.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss how and why the author instills three different humanist messages into the narrative of Far From the Tree.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the author's choice to tell the story of Far From the Tree using the third-person omniscient point of view Also discuss the author's choice to switch back and forth among the perspectives of Grace, Maya, and Joaquin. What elements of the novel's themes lend themselves to this choice and what is the author's intended effect on the reader?
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