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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 name of the club where the celebration in Chapter 2 takes place?

2. Where does Claudia recall having drinks with Tom during his leave?

3. Who does the reader learn in Chapter 2 stabs at Claudia's crotch with a finger?

4. What resulted from God not striking Claudia's brother dead?

5. Whom does the reader learn about in Chapter 2 that had a dog that did a special trick?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the illness Claudia contracts in Chapter 7, and how is it transmitted?

2. Describe Jasper.

3. What does Claudia believe is the biggest influence of her daughter's life?

4. What is the first gift given to Claudia by Tom, and what does she do with it?

5. What makes Sylvia uncomfortable about Gordon's relationship with Claudia and how does she handle it?

6. How competitive is Claudia against her brother, and what memory first shows this competitiveness to the reader?

7. What is Claudia's opinion about Sylvia?

8. Discuss Claudia's relationship with her roommate in Chapter 7.

9. Describe Lisa. How is she like her mother?

10. How does young Claudia learn where babies come from?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the conflict and the crisis in Moon Tiger. How are the conflict and crisis in the story different, and what are the similarities?

Essay Topic 2

Write a character description of Claudia. Was she a major or minor character? Protagonist or antagonist? Support your answer with specific evidence from the story.

Essay Topic 3

What is a primary theme of Moon Tiger? How does the author present this theme? How does the theme develop throughout the novel?

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