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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 Brian like as said in Chapter Three?

2. Who does Noah make out with in the closet in Chapter Three?

3. What do the students of CSA call Jude as said in Chapter Two?

4. Who says “Where the Hell is Ralph?” in Chapter One (14)?

5. What does Jude say fog has inside it to Sandy in Chapter Two?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is Grandma Sweetwine as described in Chapter One? What was her connection to the kids?

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

4. What does Jude initially tell Guillermo she wants to sculpt in Chapter Three? Why does she want to sculpt this?

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

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

7. What does Noah do when Jude takes Brian into the closet for seven minutes of heaven in Chapter Three?

8. Who does Jude meet at the church on the way to Guillermo’s studio in Chapter Two? What happens?

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

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

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

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

Destiny and fate are interwoven throughout the novel with prophecies, Ouija board predictions, intuition, and superstitions. Look at the end passage where Guillermo speaks to Jude about her mother breaking her bowls for so they could potentially meet (369). How is this philosophy of the novel shown in one character’s interaction with the world around them? Write at least four pages with at least three supporting details in addition to this passage.

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