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

2. What does Noah think of the boy he sees at the museum on Saturday in Chapter One?

3. What does Jude trade for the portrait of the English guy in Chapter Three?

4. What does Brian say to Noah about the seven minutes to heaven game in Chapter Three?

5. What does Jude do with the oranges Oscar leaves in her jacket in Chapter Three?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Brian tell Noah when he follows him to CSA for the second time in Chapter Two? What does Noah think this means?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Grief held inside is shown to hold characters down so they can no longer do what they love or be who they are. What does the novel say must happen for grief to be released? Explore this through at least two characters in the novel and their journey to release their grief.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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.

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