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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. Julia's mother, the person named as the only one who "had believed in a bright future for Julia," (50) had not lived long enough to see which milestone in Julia's life?
2. What objects does Julia scrape against the floor, greatly frightening Alice in Chapter 9?
3. Into what substance does Max place a sedative for Alice?
4. What entire novel does Julia read to Alice in Chapter 10?
5. In what type of industry had Julia and Ellie's father worked?
Short Essay Questions
1. In what way does Julia consider her mother to have been her closest ally in the family?
2. What aspect of Max's character does Julia admit to being seduced by at the end of Chapter 11?
3. How does the motif of dreams enter the narrative in Chapter 8?
4. From whose perspective is the novel narrated when Chapter 1 opens?
5. What coping mechanism does Julia use to deal with the feelings evoked by seeing her ballerina music box in her childhood room?
6. What is elective mutism?
7. Who are Cal and Peanut?
8. How is the theme of isolation linked to a particular character within the narrative?
9. What is the goal of the press conference held in Pine Valley in Chapter 6?
10. In what way does Hannah connect the theme of secrecy to the nature of small towns?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What message does Magic Hour send about the American media and how does this message connect to another theme within the text?
Essay Topic 2
How are the topics of romantic relationships, love, and sex treated within the novel Magic Hour and how does their treatment relate to the novel's depicted messages?
Essay Topic 3
Analyze Hannah’s focus on the theme of isolation in Magic Hour. What message is Hannah sending about being alone and how does this message intertwine with some other element of the text?
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