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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 the paint he had been using in Chapter Seven?

2. Where does Noah end up at on his wanderings in the beginning of Chapter Five?

3. Who stops Noah from jumping over the cliff in Chapter Six?

4. What does Brian do when he sees Noah again in Chapter Five?

5. How does Jude realize she felt about her mother as realized 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. When Jude finds out about her mother’s actions in Chapter Eight, does she think it is right or wrong? Why does she think this?

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. What does Noah’s mom tell him when she catches him masturbating with Brian in Chapter Five? What does Noah say in response?

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Think about the paragraph in Chapter Eight, where Jude speaks about how people are constantly accumulating different selves and are just “wobbly people poles” (354). How does this idea connect to how the novel is structured? Use at least three examples from the text to answer the question.

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

At the end of the novel, Guillermo tells Jude that Noah is the “ecstatic impulse” (368). What is the ecstatic impulse? Develop a definition through five different examples in the novel even if these use are not exactly used in that parts of the text. How is this impulse connected to both art and life?

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