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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. Of what do some of the patrons at the Priest's Hole accuse Jacob?

2. What are ymbrynes?

3. Why is Jacob's father agreeable to go with Jacob on a trip?

4. What happens to Jacob's grandfather as he ages?

5. How does Milliard explain the situation of the peculiars in Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jacob first find during the exploration of the abandoned Home in Chapter 5?

2. What is different about the island when Jacob emerges from the tunnel in Chapter 5?

3. How does Jacob open the locked trunk he finds in Chapter 5?

4. How do Jacob's parents try to calm Jacob after his grandfather’s death and what does he think of the effort?

5. What does Emma do to ensure Jacob's escape from the village people in Chapter 5?

6. Who is with Jacob when he comes to from his faint in Chapter 5 and what do they tell him?

7. What does Jacob say about his grandfather and a special school in the Prologue?

8. Describe Jacob's conversation with Martin Pagett's Uncle Oggie.

9. Describe the "help" Jacob gets from Dylan and Worm in finding the site of the former children's home.

10. What motivates Jacob to run into the bog near the house in Chapter 5?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss one of the following:

1. Trace and analyze the theme of growth in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Consider the following questions as you write: What characters are most concerned with growth? Why? What are some symbols of growth? Symbols of rigidity? What characters seem rigid?

2. Trace and analyze the theme of courage in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Which characters struggle with this issue? Why? Which characters seem to possess courage? Why?

3. Trace and analyze the theme of death in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Who has died a physical death? Were their deaths necessary to the story? Who has died a metaphorical death? In what way was the metaphorical death occurring?

Essay Topic 2

Characters are an important part of what makes Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children interesting. Discuss the following:

1. Thoroughly discuss and analyze Jacob. What are his strengths? His weaknesses? How does he contribute to the plot? Is he a sympathetic character? Is he always likable? Never likable? Use specific examples to illustrate your ideas.

2. Thoroughly discuss and analyze the character of Emma. What are her strengths? Her weaknesses? How does she contribute to the plot? Is she a sympathetic character? Is she ever likable? Never likable? Use specific examples to illustrate your ideas.

3. Thoroughly discuss and analyze the character of Miss Peregrine. What are her strengths? Her weaknesses? How does she contribute to the plot? Is she a sympathetic character? Is she ever likable? Never likable? Use specific examples to illustrate your ideas.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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