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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. Why does Jasper fear reporting the murder in Chapter One?

2. What has happened to Jeffrey's family, as revealed in Chapter Four?

3. What figurative language is used in the following quote: "my mother emerges from the house like an angry outlaw exiting a saloon" (99)?

4. Which description does NOT fit Jeffrey?

5. What does Charlie's dad call him to show respect?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Charlie agree to help Jasper?

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

3. In what ways is the relationship between Charlie's parents built on a shaky foundation?

4. What is it that attracts Charlie to Eliza Wishart?

5. Why does Charlie admire Batman?

6. Why does Jasper fear that he will be accused of Laura's murder?

7. What is ironic about Charlie's nickname for An Lu's garden?

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

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

10. Why does Jasper come to Charlie?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Throughout the novel, Charlie thinks of the way he walks in relation to others. Sometimes he is behind, other times he is in the lead or walking side-by-side with someone else. Write an essay in which you discuss the changes in Charlie's character as he relates to others in this way.

Essay Topic 2

What causes the end of the Bucktin parents' relationship? Why has Wesley Bucktin always chosen to be so passive?

Essay Topic 3

Explore one of the criminal cases in which Charlie becomes engrossed. Detail the ways in which the crime can highlight our understanding of the Jasper Jones text.

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