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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 Guillermo do when he sees Noah in Chapter Seven?

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

3. What does Noah realize about his memories with his dad in Chapter Five?

4. What does Brian tell Noah in Chapter Five that feels like an asteroid crashing down?

5. What had Jude done when she had heard the news about their mother as said in Chapter Six?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. What does Guillermo say in Chapter Eight about Jude’s mother breaking her pottery? What does this make Jude think about destiny?

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Grief held inside is shown to hold characters down so they can no longer do what they love or be who they are. What does the novel say must happen for grief to be released? Explore this through at least two characters in the novel and their journey to release their grief.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Jude says at the end of the novel, “Love does as it undoes. It goes after, with equal tenacity: joy and heartbreak” (355). How is this morality of the novel shown in the characters' journey? Choose two characters and compare this morality to their lives and experiences. How do their experiences add up morally in the end? Write at least four pages with four examples from the novel.

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