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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 happens when Jacob sleeps?
2. What does Jacob wake to find on his dresser in Chapter 4?
3. How does Abe take it when Jacob says he no longer believes Abe's stories?
4. Who accuses Jacob of being a wight?
5. How does Jacob sleep the first night at the inn?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Jacob open the locked trunk he finds in Chapter 5?
2. What does Jacob tell his father about his day in Chapter 3, and what is Jacob's father's response?
3. What photographs does Abe show Jacob, and what does Jacob come to believe about Abe's stories?
4. What does Jacob watch out of the window of the Home in Chapter 6?
5. What is different about the island when Jacob emerges from the tunnel in Chapter 5?
6. What does Jacob say about how his elderly grandfather has deteriorated in Chapter 1?
7. What does Jacob convince his parents that he should do to help him recover from Abe's death?
8. What motivates Jacob to run into the bog near the house in Chapter 5?
9. What does Jacob first find during the exploration of the abandoned Home in Chapter 5?
10. Who is with Jacob when he comes to from his faint in Chapter 5 and what do they tell him?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In Chapter 5 one of the photos is that of a tunnel with a light coming from its mouth. This photo is particularly interesting, in that it has significant metaphoric value with a couple of possible, but related, meanings. On the one hand, a long dark tunnel is often evocative of both the human birth canal and the journey new beings take down it. Also, the "light at the end of the tunnel" is a phrase/image often used to evoke hope, or possibility. Finally, there is the evocation of death.
1. Do you think everyone who moves into a new phase in life goes from darkness into light? Why or why not? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.
2. Why would shedding light on the secrets of Abe's life provide hope to Jacob? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.
3. Jacob's moving into a new life was precipitated by the death of someone he loved. Do you think all growth has to have some traumatic event to occur before growth can begin? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
Irony is a literary device that serves many purposes. Irony can be employed for comedic results or to develop tension in a story. Discuss the following:
1. How are dramatic, verbal, and situational irony defined?
2. What are examples of irony in the novel? What types of irony are these examples?
3. In the examples above, discuss the purpose of irony. Does this example create tension, evoke humor, etc.?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss one of the following:
1. Thoroughly analyze how the setting informs the plot in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.
2. Trace and analyze one major theme of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. How is the theme represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?
3. Trace and analyze two secondary themes of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. How are the themes represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?
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