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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 Guillermo say Oscar’s name as said in Chapter Three?

2. Who does Sandy suggest that Jude work with in Chapter Two?

3. What does Guillermo say to Jude when she meets him in Chapter Two?

4. What are Jude and her mother fighting over in Chapter Three?

5. What does Guillermo make Jude do to feel the experience of drawing more in Chapter Three?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Jude go to Devil’s Drop in Chapter Two? What does she think about seeing Noah jump off Devil’s Drop?

2. What had happened between Jude and Zephyr as said in Chapter Two? Why does Jude think this has brought bad luck on her family?

3. Who is Grandma Sweetwine as described in Chapter One? What was her connection to the kids?

4. How are Noah’s mom and dad described by Noah in Chapter One? What is his relationship to each of them?

5. What does Noah do when Jude takes Brian into the closet for seven minutes of heaven in Chapter Three?

6. What does Guillermo tell Jude about drawing in Chapter Three as she draws Oscar? What does he have her do while she is learning?

7. What does Jude initially tell Guillermo she wants to sculpt in Chapter Three? Why does she want to sculpt this?

8. What does Noah think about Brian’s when seeing him talking with the Hornet Girls in Chapter Three?

9. What imagery does Noah use to describe each of his family’s souls in Chapter One?

10. What did Grandmother Sweetwine tell Noah and Jude when she read their palms as said in Chapter One? How does Noah see what she reads in Jude?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Think about the paragraph in Chapter Eight, where Jude speaks about how people are constantly accumulating different selves and are just “wobbly people poles” (354). How does this idea connect to how the novel is structured? Use at least three examples from the text to answer the question.

Essay Topic 2

At the end of the novel, Jude says to her mother’s presence, “Not just art, but life---magic” (353). What is the novel showing as the relationship between art and life? Use two characters narrative arc to support your claim. Write at least three pages with five supporting details.

Essay Topic 3

How is grief shown as affecting Noah? How is it shown as affecting Jude? How is it shown as affecting their father? Write an exploratory essay showing how grief manifests in each of these characters. Include how their grief overlaps or how the grief of one character affects or is interpreted by another character. What sets the grief free for each of the characters? Write a summative claim about what the novel is showing about the experience of grief.

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