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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 Jude ask Noah for in Chapter Three?

2. What does The English man offer Jude in Chapter Three that alarms her?

3. What had the magazines Jude had found about Guillermo online said about him as reported in Chapter Two?

4. What is Jude mother’s book on Frida Kahlo and Diego Riveria titled as said in Chapter Three?

5. What does Noah’s mom quote from Picasso in Chapter One?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who does Jude meet at the church on the way to Guillermo’s studio in Chapter Two? What happens?

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

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

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

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

7. What does Jude find in Oscar’s room in Chapter Three? What is the prophecy about her?

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

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

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

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

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

When Oscar opens up to Jude, she thinks, “I understand the quicksand of shame” (234). How is shame a quicksand for these two characters? And what pulls them out of the quicksand? Write three pages with at least four examples from the text.

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