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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. How does Noah feel as Guillermo rocks him in Chapter Seven?

2. What had the twins' mother told them she was when she was younger, as said in Chapter Six?

3. What does Noah feel like when he answers the phone in Chapter Seven?

4. What is the picture in Chapter Six that Noah and Jude had not seen until after their mother’s death?

5. What do Noah and Jude’s mom and dad announce in Chapter Five?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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 does Jude think as she runs to stop Noah from jumping off the cliff in Chapter Six? What does she do to Zephyr?

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jude says in Chapter Five, about Noah, “We’re never going to be us again” (209). But by the end of the novel, Jude and Noah have come back together. Trace their evolution as siblings throughout the novel in three pages with five textual examples. Answer the question: What does their changing relationship and eventual coming back together say about the nature of siblings relationships?

Essay Topic 2

The novel ends with the words:

“Take a (second or third or fourth) chance.

Remake the world" (371).

Choose two of the characters. How are they able to remake their world? What in themselves or in others allows them to have this second chance? Write three pages with four examples from the novel

Essay Topic 3

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.

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