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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What figurative language is used in the following quote: "my mother emerges from the house like an angry outlaw exiting a saloon" (99)?
(a) Personification.
(b) Oxymoron.
(c) Simile.
(d) Metaphor.

2. What topic do Jeffrey and Charlie NOT tease each other about in Chapter Two?
(a) The best super heroes.
(b) Their popularity.
(c) The best way to die.
(d) How to get girls.

3. Who has died in Charlie's family?
(a) His grandfather.
(b) His grandmother.
(c) His little brother.
(d) His little sister.

4. Which of the following is NOT part of Jasper Jones's reputation?
(a) Honor roll student.
(b) A liar.
(c) A thief.
(d) A half-caste.

5. What punishment does Charlie's mother give him for sneaking off and his disrespect in Chapter Three?
(a) She sends him to his room and takes away his books.
(b) She refuses to allow him to see Eliza anymore.
(c) She allows his father to handle all the problems.
(d) She makes him dig a hole and then fill it back in.

Short Answer Questions

1. What figurative language is used in the following quote: "our flyscreen door claps against the side of the house" (99)?

2. When Jeffrey joins the cricket game in Chapter Two, what can we infer about his character?

3. What is the title of Jeffrey and Charlie's Great Australian novel?

4. What metaphor does Charlie use to describe the spotter planes in Chapter Four?

5. As they walk out of the woods at the end of Chapter One, how does Charlie feel about Jasper?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of the problems between Charlie and his mother?

2. Why might Jeffrey Lu takes great chances?

3. What is the history of the study in the Bucktin household? How might its current use a study create turmoil?

4. Why does Charlie's father give Charlie a stack of American novels that deal with Civil Rights?

5. Jasper has an interesting accent. How does this use of dialect help us to understand him?

6. Would you describe Jeffrey and Charlie's friendship as close?

7. How does the use of allusions help to highlight some of the themes in Chapter Two?

8. What does Charlie fall asleep thinking about in Chapter Three?

9. Charlie loves American books about justice, especially in relation to race, Civil Rights, and the Civil War. How do these allusions help us understand Charlie?

10. In what ways are children bullied in this novel?

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