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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. How does it feel to Noah to kiss Brian in Chapter Five?

3. What does Guillermo do when he sees Noah in Chapter Seven?

4. What does Oscar tell Jude that they are in Chapter Six?

5. What does Noah do after his mom leaves in the car in Chapter Seven?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Noah see on the way back from the Wooden Bird in Chapter Five? What does he do?

3. 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?

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

5. What does Jude find online about Brian in Chapter Six? How does she feel about this?

6. What does Noah see when he walks away from the studio in Chapter Five? Why does this alarm him?

7. What does Noah tell his dad about his mom after the accident in Chapter Seven? What does he tell the sculptor, Guillermo?

8. What is revealed in Chapter Six that happened after Jude had sex with Zephyr?

9. What does Jude tell Noah in Chapter Eight about how a person is made up after the truth is revealed?

10. Why is Brian so upset about Noah’s mom catching him and Noah masturbating together in Chapter Five? What does he tell Noah?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Jude says to Guillermo, “I’ve been thinking that you might be, I don’t know, maybe a little magical or something because in my sculpture textbook it talked all about those angels you used to carve as a kid, and it said you were believed to be enchanted, or possessed even” (160). How is this passage connected to the novel’s ideas of where art comes from? Write three pages with four supporting details.

Essay Topic 3

At the end of the novel, Jude says to her mother’s presence, “Not just art, but life---magic” (353). What is the novel showing as the relationship between art and life? Use two characters narrative arc to support your claim. Write at least three pages with five supporting details.

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