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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. How does Noah say he draws Jude in Chapter One?

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

3. Who does Noah and Jude’s mom say visited her in the car in Chapter One?

4. What does Oscar say his mother said about Jude in Chapter Three?

5. What happens when Fry and Bighead ambush Noah and Brian in Chapter Three?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is Jude’s relationship with her mother in Chapter Three? How is her relationship with Noah?

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

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

5. How do Noah and Brian become friends in Chapter Three? How does Noah think of Brian?

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

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

8. How are Noah’s mom and dad described by Noah in Chapter One? What is his relationship to each of them?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jude says at the end of the novel, “Love does as it undoes. It goes after, with equal tenacity: joy and heartbreak” (355). How is this morality of the novel shown in the characters' journey? Choose two characters and compare this morality to their lives and experiences. How do their experiences add up morally in the end? Write at least four pages with four examples from the novel.

Essay Topic 2

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.

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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