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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 are hollowgasts?

2. What do the children ask Jacob while they play in Chapter 7?

3. What does Emma keep trying to do?

4. What is Horace's talent?

5. What is Olive's special ability?

Short Essay Questions

1. What would happen if the children left the loop in their own time period?

2. Who are several more of the children Jacob meets in Chapter 7?

3. How do the emotions between Emma and Jacob intensify in Chapter 8?

4. What news greets Jacob and Emma when they arrive back in 1940 in Chapter 10?

5. Why can't Jacob's father or Miss Peregrine help Jacob solve his dilemma in Chapter 10?

6. What does Miss Peregrine do to help Jacob fit in to the children's home?

7. What internal struggle does Jacob grapple with in the beginning of Chapter 10?

8. What strangeness does Jacob notice when he wakes in the morning in Chapter 8?

9. How is it apparent that there may be a budding romance between Jacob and Emma in Chapter 7?

10. Why is Jacob's father almost drunk when Jacob returns to the Priest's Hole of his era?

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

Often, authors will write about "what they know," and sometimes knowing a little about the author makes the books more interesting. Discuss the following:

1. Give a brief biographical sketch of Ransom Riggs.

2. What in Riggs's background may have helped him in writing Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children? What may have influenced the way he depicts various characters and scenes?

3. Do you think there is always some of the author's own life in his/her novels? Why or why not? Give examples.

Essay Topic 3

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children belongs to the fantasy genre. Discuss the following:

1. Define the literary term "genre" and give several examples of three other genres in addition to the fantasy genre.

2. Discuss two reasons why it might be useful to label a text by genre and two reasons it might be disadvantageous to label a text by genre.

3. What do you think is the difference between a fantasy and a historical novel mystery?

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