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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. Why is Jude surprised to hear about her sand sculptures from Sandy in Chapter Two?

2. What does Jude think of Guillermo’s sculptures she finds in Google in Chapter Three?

3. What does Noah see at Brian’s going away party that both shocks and makes him happy in Chapter Three?

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

5. Why had Jude stopped going to museums with Noah and their mom as said in Chapter Three?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Noah see at Brian’s going away party in Chapter Three that amazes him? How does he feel? Why does he feel this way?

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

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

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

6. 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?

7. What is Guillermo’s and Oscar’s relationship as said in Chapter Three? How did they come to meet?

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

9. How does Jude get Guillermo to mentor her in Chapter Three?

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

I’ll Give You the Sun is narrated in two highly metaphorical voices with figurative language. Think back to previous lessons about the narration. How does the novel say what is thought becomes a reality? Choose one of the narrators and show how their narration and interpretation of the world shapes a world within a world. Write four pages with at least four example details.

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter Five, Noah’s mom compares him to his dad and tells him, “Jude and I have quite a bit of armor on us [...] It takes a lot to break through” (284). Noah has an antagonistic relationship with his dad for most of the novel, while Jude has an antagonistic relationship with her mom. What does each of the twin’s relationships with their parents, and how each of these relationships changes or is re-understood in the novel, say about family dynamics? Write at least three pages with four textual examples.

Essay Topic 3

At the end of the novel, Guillermo tells Jude that Noah is the “ecstatic impulse” (368). What is the ecstatic impulse? Develop a definition through five different examples in the novel even if these use are not exactly used in that parts of the text. How is this impulse connected to both art and life?

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