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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 tell his father he is going to do today in Chapter 7?
2. Who offers Jacob a deal in Chapter 10?
3. What rises out of the water as Emma and Jacob watch in Chapter 10?
4. What is Enoch's peculiar ability?
5. Who meets Jacob and Emma as they come back through the cairn?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why do Jacob and Emma run desperately down the steps of the lighthouse and what do they see when they get outside?
2. How do the emotions between Emma and Jacob intensify in Chapter 8?
3. What is Emma's reaction when she finds Jacob looking over the letters between her and Abe, and how does this confrontation make Jacob leery of Emma's advances?
4. What happens at dinner in Chapter 6 that causes Jacob sudden panic and how do the children react?
5. What news greets Jacob and Emma when they arrive back in 1940 in Chapter 10?
6. How does Jacob end up finding some letters from Abe to Emma?
7. Why can't Jacob's father or Miss Peregrine help Jacob solve his dilemma in Chapter 10?
8. What internal struggle does Jacob grapple with in the beginning of Chapter 10?
9. Describe Jacob's second monster kill.
10. What strangeness does Jacob notice when he wakes in the morning in Chapter 8?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Characters are an integral and important part of almost all novels. Discuss the following:
1. Compare/contrast the characters of Jacob and his father. How are they similar? How are they different? Is there a flaw in each of their personalities? Be specific and give examples.
2. Compare/contrast the characters of Emma and Miss Peregrine. How do they seem different? Which do you like more? Why? Which one seems more of a well-rounded character?
3. Thoroughly analyze how three of the secondary characters in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children help drive the plot and what their contribution is to the storyline. Are any of the secondary characters unnecessary? Indispensable? Which of the secondary characters are likable? Which are either unlikable or even despicable? Be specific and give examples.
Essay Topic 2
1. What is foreshadowing? How many incidences of foreshadowing are in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children? How does foreshadowing contribute to a book's suspense?
2. Discuss an example of foreshadowing in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children including why you believe it is foreshadowing. Include examples from the book and your own life to illustrate your answer.
3. How do you think most people react to uncertainty in their lives? Use examples from Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and your own live to support your opinion.
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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