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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 do the students of CSA call Jude as said in Chapter Two?

2. What does Jude tell Guillermo to convince him to take her as a student in Chapter Three?

3. What excites Noah about the live model at class in Chapter Three?

4. What does Jude begin sculpting instead of her mother in Chapter Three?

5. Who arrives in Oscar’s room while Jude is in there in Chapter Three?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the students at CSA call Jude “Calamity Jane/Jude” as said in Chapter Two? Why is this nickname not Jude's fault?

2. What happens when Zephyr and Fry attack Noah in Chapter One? Why do they let him go?

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

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

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

6. What does Sandy ask Jude in his office in Chapter Two? What does Jude say in response?

7. Why is Jude so adamant not to accept an orange from Oscar in Chapter Three? What does she do to return it?

8. What happens with the seven minutes to heaven game played at Brian’s going away party in Chapter Three?

9. Why does Jude decide to swear off of Oscar in Chapter Three? What does she find in his jacket at the end of the chapter?

10. What is the “Invisible Museum” of Chapter One? How do we learn this?

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

In the end of the novel, Guillermo suggests to Jude that perhaps her mother broke her clay creations in the beginning so they could meet one another (369). Jude had initially told Guillermo that her mother was breaking her bowls because her mother was mad at her (190). What does this reinterpretation say about assumptions? Connect your answer to this question to one other character’s journey in the novel. Provide at least three examples from the text.

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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