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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 Noah see at Brian’s going away party that both shocks and makes him happy in Chapter Three?

2. What does the English guy try to do with Jude in Chapter Two?

3. How does Noah draw his dad as said in Chapter One?

4. What does Guillermo tell Jude about her portfolio in Chapter Three?

5. What does Noah’s mom tell his dad when his dad says Grandma’s Sweetwine’s appearance is nonsense in Chapter One?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jude actually begin sculpting in Chapter Three? What does she think about as she sculpts this? Why does she stop sculpting this?

2. What does Noah see at Brian’s going away party in Chapter Three that amazes him? How does he feel? Why does he feel this way?

3. Why does Noah think his mom is blown in from the “other side” as said in Chapter One?

4. 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?

5. Why does Sandy tell Jude she got into CSA in Chapter Two? Why does this surprise Jude?

6. What does Oscar say happened with his mother’s death in Chapter Three? Why does he feel guilty about it?

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

8. How does Jude get Guillermo to mentor her in Chapter Three?

9. What does Sandy tell Jude about working in stone in Chapter Two? Why does Jude think is a sign about this?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Grandma Sweetwine says, “A broken heart is an open heart” (212). Look at one character in the novel and examine their story arc. How is this saying true for them? In other words, how is their heart broken, and how does this broken-ness connect to being able to be open? What are they open to? Write three pages with at least four textual examples.

Essay Topic 2

I’ll Give You the Sun is narrated in two highly metaphorical voices with figurative language. Think back to previous lessons about the narration. How does the novel say what is thought becomes a reality? Choose one of the narrators and show how their narration and interpretation of the world shapes a world within a world. Write four pages with at least four example details.

Essay Topic 3

The novel ends with the words:

“Take a (second or third or fourth) chance.

Remake the world" (371).

Choose two of the characters. How are they able to remake their world? What in themselves or in others allows them to have this second chance? Write three pages with four examples from the novel

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