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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. How do Claudia and Gordon feel when they dance together?

2. Who in Claudia's current life knows about her miscarriage?

3. Who takes Claudia a gift basket from Fortnum's while she's in the hospital?

4. What is Claudia writing when she receives her Fortnum's gift basket in the hospital?

5. What does Camilla insinuate when she learns that Claudia is pregnant?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is it that Claudia acquires Tom's journal?

2. Why does Jasper decide to pursue a career in TV?

3. Discuss the accident that severely injures Claudia.

4. How does Claudia's apology in Chapter 15 make Lisa feel?

5. Other than being grief stricken, what terrifies Claudia about not knowing how Tom dies?

6. Why does Claudia refuse to pretend to be Jasper's secretary when they visit NATO together?

7. How does Claudia learn of the cause of Tom's death?

8. How does Claudia describe Cortez? How popular was her book about him?

9. Discuss why Claudia and Gordon like to dance with each other, even as children.

10. What fascinates Claudia about Memphis?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Define rising action as an element of plot. Discuss in detail the rising action in Moon Tiger. How did it flow? How did the rising action add to the suspense of the story, or did it?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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.

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