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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. Who else has arrived on the island that discourages Jacob's father in Chapter 8?

2. Who is able to see the hollowgast?

3. How does Miss Peregrine react to the news about the murder in Chapter 10?

4. Who observes Golan from a hiding place in Chapter 10?

5. Why is Miss Peregrine angry with Jacob when he returns to the Home in Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Miss Avocet say she is at the Home in Chapter 9?

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

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

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

5. What is wrong with Victor in Chapter 8 and what does his sister want Enoch to do about it?

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

7. Why is Miss Peregrine angry with Jacob when he returns to the Home in Chapter 8?

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

9. Who is murdered in Cairnholm in Chapter 10 and what does Jacob think happened?

10. What do the children do when Jacob arrives back at the home the next day in Chapter 7?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There are a number of interesting questions raised by Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Consider and discuss the following questions that Riggs most likely want readers to consider and think through carefully:

1. What does the term "author agenda" mean?

2. Name one idea/concept you think may have been a part of the Riggs's agenda. Analyze that idea throughout the book and discuss Riggs's probable agenda concerning that idea.

3. Do you think writers who have an agenda for writing should point it out in a preface?

4. How often do you think fiction is written with a clear agenda in mind by the author?

5. Research the life of Riggs and see if/where his life may have influenced his writing.

Essay Topic 2

Titles often play a vital role in making a person decide to read a particular book. Discuss the following:

1. Fully explain why you think Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is titled as such. Do you think it is the best title for the book? Why or why not? Can you think of a better title? Why would you choose it?

2. How important is a title in influencing you to consider reading a book? Explain your answer.

3. Do you think a title needs to have direct relevance to a book's content? Explain your answer.

4. Have you ever read a book that when you finished, you do not understand the relevance of the title? Does it discourage you from "trusting" that particular author again?

Essay Topic 3

One of the enduring myths of the human race is that of The Hero's Journey. Jacob leaves his home, embarks on a simultaneous outer and inner journey, and emerges transformed, with a new world view and perspective.

The reason this particular point in Jacob's story is such a good place to comment on its relationship to The Hero's Journey is that his emergence from darkness into light, his "rebirth" is an example of a motif or repeated image that very often, almost inescapably, appears in Hero's Journey narratives.

1. Discuss what you see is the outer journey that Jacob undertakes. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. Discuss Jacob's inner journey and how he was changed by it. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

3. Discuss why it might be true that a Hero's Journey always involves moving from darkness into light, in the form especially of self knowledge. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

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