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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 Chauncey react to the boy?

2. Who is moved into Vee's usual place in class?

3. When is Nora's house built?

4. What does the boy demand of Chauncey?

5. What does Jules do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Nora when she is driving home in Vee's car?

2. How does Nora spend her evening after the change in biology?

3. Why does Patch take Nora home from the arcade?

4. How does Nora feel about the painting on the Archangel and what happens when she is on it?

5. What is the assignment for the day in biology class?

6. What happens when Nora and Patch get to her house?

7. How do the students feel about the biology lesson in Chapter 1 and what does the coach say about it?

8. Where does Nora go to school, what does she find in the biology class in the first chapter and who does she sit with in that class?

9. What is Nora doing the next day in biology when coach is talking and what is she thinking about?

10. Describe where Nora lives.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the following:

1. What do you think are the characteristics of a successful novel?

2. Analyze and discuss Hush, Hush based upon the criteria you decide upon in #1 and judge if Hush, Hush is a successful novel.

3. Do you think the criteria for a successful novel should be different if it is written for adults versus young adults? Why or why not? Would most adults consider Hush, Hush a successful novel? What about young teens?

Essay Topic 2

Often, authors will write about "what they know," and sometimes knowing a little about the author makes the books more interesting. Discuss the following:

1. Research and give a brief biographical sketch of Becca Fitzpatrick.

2. What in Fitzpatrick's background may have helped him in writing Hush, Hush? What may have influenced the way he depicts various characters and scenes?

3. Do you think there is always some of the author's own life in his/her novels? Why or why not? Give examples.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss one of the following:

1. Thoroughly analyze how the setting informs the plot in Hush, Hush.

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

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

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