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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 is the name of Guillermo’s cat as said in Chapter Three?

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

3. What does Noah’s mom tell his dad when his dad says Grandma’s Sweetwine’s appearance is nonsense in Chapter One?

4. What had Grandma Sweetwine said her son, Noah and Jude's dad, was as said in Chapter One?

5. What happens to Jude’s art on display at critique in Chapter Two?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Zephyr and Fry attack Noah in Chapter One? Why do they let him go?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the Invisible Museum? And What is the Book of Truth? Why do we find out what one is the beginning, while the other is revealed at the very end? What does this say about each character and their development? Write at least three pages with four examples from the novel.

Essay Topic 2

When Oscar opens up to Jude, she thinks, “I understand the quicksand of shame” (234). How is shame a quicksand for these two characters? And what pulls them out of the quicksand? Write three pages with at least four examples from the text.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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