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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 when he gets home with his dad in Chapter Five?
2. How does Noah feel as Guillermo rocks him in Chapter Seven?
3. How does Jude feel when she realizes that Guillermo was in love with her mother in Chapter Eight?
4. What does Oscar tell Jude about her mother in Chapter Eight?
5. What had Noah’s mom mouthed to Noah before she left in Chapter Seven?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Jude tell Noah in Chapter Eight about how a person is made up after the truth is revealed?
2. What does Jude find online about Brian in Chapter Six? How does she feel about this?
3. What happens at the Wooden Bird in Chapter Five? How does Noah feel?
4. What is revealed in Chapter Six that happened after Jude had sex with Zephyr?
5. What is Noah’s dad’s dream in Chapter Five? How does this dream come true?
6. What does Jude do to the statue of NoahandJude in Chapter Six? Why does she do this? How had Jude thought about her soul in comparison to how Noah had?
7. What does Noah do when he sees his mom making out with the sculptor in Chapter Five? What does Noah’s mom tell him when she talks to him?
8. What does Noah say when his dad asks about him dating in Chapter Five? Why does Noah say this?
9. What does Noah see on the way back from the Wooden Bird in Chapter Five? What does he do?
10. When his mom talks to him at the end of Chapter Five, what does Noah want to tell his mom? What does he do instead?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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 3
When Jude first is at CSA, she thinks of herself as non-artistic, thinking that Noah is the artistic one. Later, she finds her craft and also finds that her mother wanted to be an artist. Connect these two characters together. How does their courage to follow what they want allow them to create the life they want? Where do they find the courage to take each of these new journeys on? Write three pages with four examples from the novel.
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