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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 realize about his memories with his dad in Chapter Five?

2. Who does Noah find outside Guillermo's studio in Chapter Five?

3. What does Noah’s mom say to Noah at the end of the Chapter Five?

4. What does Oscar give to Jude in Chapter Six?

5. What does Jude get a text about in Chapter Six?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Noah do when he sees the sculptor, Guillermo, in Chapter Seven? Why does Noah pull away from being comforted by the sculptor?

2. What does Noah’s mom tell him about his dad that makes Noah pause in Chapter Five? What does she say about her and Jude?

3. Why in Chapter Six, does Noah tell Jude he has been jumping off cliffs? What does he say doing this allows him to do?

4. What happens at the Wooden Bird in Chapter Five? How does Noah feel?

5. What happens when Oscar comes over to Jude’s house in Chapter Six? Why does he suddenly run out of the house?

6. How does Jude decide to do to make things right with Noah in Chapter Six? What does she do?

7. What does Jude find out in Chapter Eight was her mother’s secret wish? Why had their mother not told them this before?

8. What had her mother said about marrying her father as Jude remembers in Chapter Six? Why did this surprise Jude so much?

9. What does Noah say when his dad asks about him dating in Chapter Five? Why does Noah say this?

10. How had Jude’s mother grown up as said in Chapter Six? How had art become a part of her life?

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

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

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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