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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 is the names of Noah’s new friend in Chapter Three?

2. What painting in Guillermo’s studio in Chapter Three catches Jude’s attention?

3. What did Jude’s mother write about Guillermo as said in Chapter Two?

4. What does Jude look at in Sandy’s office in Chapter Two?

5. What does the English boy say to Jude in Chapter Two?

Short Essay Questions

1. How has Jude’s dad become after their mother’s death as said in Chapter Three?

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

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

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

5. Why is Jude on a boy fast as said in Chapter Two? What does she do to keep up the boy fast?

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

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

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

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

10. What happens when Jude knocks each time on Guillermo’s studio in Chapter Two?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter Two, Jude narrates how her mother would ask her if she wanted to be “that girl” (45). In Chapter Four, Guillermo tells Jude, “You will put that girl in the sculpture you make with me” (191). In Chapter Seven, Jude has a revelation about her interpretation of her mother’s words of being that girl. How does the novel reinterpret this phrase from chapter to chapter? What does Jude’s re-claiming of the word say about how she has grown as a character? Write at least four pages with four examples from the novel.

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