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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 was the “Reign of the Ridiculous” as said in Chapter One (10)?

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

3. How is Jude and her mother’s relationship as said in Chapter Three?

4. What does the Ouija board in Chapter Three say about the twins getting into CSA?

5. Who are the bullies who attack Noah in Chapter One?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

9. What happens to Jude’s bookmarks on the computer about Guillermo in Chapter Three? What does Noah say about this?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

Think back to the lesson on Noah and Jude being character foils. Write an essay comparing them as character foils. Answer the following questions: Why do they switch places from one to the other? How does the novel change the idea of what a character foil can be? Why does it do this? Write three pages with at least four examples from the novel.

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