Milkweed: A Novel Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 138 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Milkweed: A Novel Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 138 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 Misha steal from Janina on her birthday?

2. Who does Misha tell the boys Janina is?

3. Who watches the narrator eat his tomato?

4. Where does Misha go after he rides the horses?

5. What do the men in the black coats do on the street?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the men in black coats doing on the first day of the parade?

2. What does the little girl invite Misha to, and what does Misha do at that event?

3. What happens when Misha runs headfirst into another boy after he stole cream puffs from a woman on the street?

4. What does Misha start doing with Janina after her birthday party?

5. What does Misha begin taking to the orphanage on a regular basis?

6. Where does Misha take the roasted rats he steals?

7. What does Misha discover in the brick wall that separates the ghetto from the rest of the city?

8. Who does Misha wake up to find in the stable one morning?

9. Who comes into the stable one morning, in Chapter 17, and force the boys out?

10. What does Misha come across in the cemetery?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay in which you analyze the relationship between Misha and his granddaughter. What is significant about this relationship, and why does Misha cherish the girl the way he does at the end of the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Misha becomes a regular smuggler once he discovers a two-brick hole in the wall the separates the ghetto from the rest of the city. How does Misha's smuggling directly affect the plot of the novel? Use specific passages from the text to support your ideas.

Essay Topic 3

When Misha first sees the Jackboots, he is awestruck by their rigidity and harshness, and decides early on that he would like to be one some day. How does Misha's viewpoint of the Jackboots change throughout the novel, and why?

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