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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 Jacob do when he arrives back at the Home in the beginning of Chapter 5?

2. What is coming out of the hands of a young girl in a photograph Jacob finds?

3. What is Jacob's job in his family's business?

4. What does Milliard look at as he is planning the escape of Emma, Jacob, and himself?

5. What is one photograph Abe shows Jacob?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. What does Jacob convince his parents that he should do to help him recover from Abe's death?

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

6. What photographs does Abe show Jacob, and what does Jacob come to believe about Abe's stories?

7. What does Jacob watch out of the window of the Home in Chapter 6?

8. What does Jacob say about how his elderly grandfather has deteriorated in Chapter 1?

9. Why does Jacob run out of the Priest's Hole in Chapter 5? Who does he encounter, and what does she do?

10. What does Jacob say about how his life has changed in the Prologue?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the following to discuss:

1. Choose two significant symbols and trace and analyze their appearance in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Are these universal symbols? Would they be understood in any culture? Are there other symbols that would portray the same idea? What are they? Why do you think Riggs chooses the symbols he does?

2. Choose two important metaphors and trace and analyze their appearance in the novel. Are these universal metaphors? Would they be understood in any culture? Are there other metaphors that would portray the same idea? What are they? Why do you think Riggs chooses the metaphors she does?

3. Discuss Riggs's use (or lack) of literary device (such as foreshadowing, cliffhangers, deus ex machina, etc.), and how they add or detract from the story. Does Riggs use too many or too little literary techniques? State which of the five major elements of fiction the literary device is related to (style, character, plot, setting, and theme).

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Jacob’s story serves as a Hero’s Journey on various levels and is comparable to other novels and series’ exploring similar themes. As with Jacob’s discovery of the Home, there are also echoes of other stories of so-called "special" young people being kept safe and hidden from the world.

1. Why do you think allegorical stories of a Hero's Journey often take place in alternative worlds? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. Do you think special people or people who are very different from others need protection from exploitation or attack? Why or why not? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

3. Chose two of the peculiar children in this book and explain how they might be exploited in normal "real" society and why you think this would happen. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

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