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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 is the cause of the recent change Jacob discusses?

2. Who does Jacob recognize at the Home?

3. What does the word “peregrine” refer to?

4. What do Jacob's father and aunt do with Jacob in Chapter 2?

5. What do Jacob, Emma, and Millard do after the cart leaves the village boundary?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jacob's father explain Abe's stories?

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

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

4. Where is Jacob when his grandfather calls him in Chapter 1 and what does the grandfather want?

5. What does Jacob tell his parents, the police, and Ricky about what he saw when his grandfather died? What is their response?

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

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

8. How is the last leg of the journey to Cairnholm accomplished, and what do Jacob and his father see in the waters along the way?

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

10. What does Jacob tell his father about his day in Chapter 3, and what is Jacob's father's response?

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

Many readers of fiction place themselves in the position of one character, wondering if they would do the same thing as that character. Discuss the following:

1. Do you think one of the values of literature is to serve as a reflection of oneself? Why or why not?

2. Socrates said "Know thyself." How can reading a book such as Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children help a reader to know him/herself? Do you find yourself reflecting on your own character and abilities when reading Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children? Why or why not?

3. Choose one specific incident in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children to discuss and compare one of the characters' responses to how you think you would respond.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the following:

1. What do you think are the characteristics of a successful novel?

2. Analyze and discuss Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children based upon the criteria you decide upon in #1 and judge if Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is a successful novel.

3. Do you think the criteria for a successful novel should be different if it is written for adults versus young adults? Why or why not? Would most adults consider Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children a successful novel? What about young teens?

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