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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 Noah tell Brian after the first meet and walk through the woods in Chapter Three?

2. What happens when Jude goes in Oscar’s room in Chapter Three?

3. What does Jude think about the English man as he leaves in Chapter Two?

4. What is the name of the English man as said in Chapter Three?

5. How does Noah draw his dad as said in Chapter One?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. What does Sandy tell Jude about working in stone in Chapter Two? Why does Jude think is a sign about this?

5. What happens when Fry and Big Head interrupt Noah and Brian in the woods in Chapter Three? How does Brian deal with them?

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

8. 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?

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

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

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

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.

Essay Topic 3

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

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