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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. Father Sean originally comes from what country?
2. To whom must Xiomara lie in order to attend poetry club?
3. What is the final word of the poem entitled, "Music" (141)?
4. What is the name of the young woman whom Xiomara eventually befriends in poetry club?
5. Father Sean tells Xiomara that sometimes he misses what element of his past?
Short Essay Questions
1. About what topic does Xiomara have hope, as discussed in her poem "Hope is a Thing with Wings" (263)?
2. What event causes Xiomara to wonder about the qualities of silence and its possible destructive nature?
3. Discuss Xiomara's use of personification in the poem entitled "Silent World" (223).
4. To whom is Xiomara talking when she thinks about people being told that their bodies cannot do certain things?
5. What is on the list of prohibited behaviors Xiomara includes in the poem entitled "What I Don't Tell Aman" (148)?
6. What is the cause of the marked change in the relationship between Xiomara and Mami?
7. How does Xavier keep his parents from finding out about Cody, though he has been crying about the break-up for days?
8. What experience does Xiomara have with receiving compliments?
9. Who is Cody?
10. What is the cause of Xavier's emotional breakdown within the narrative?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Determine Acevedo's message regarding the idea that art must be shared with an audience in order to fulfill its true potential.
Essay Topic 2
Analyze The Poet X from an Existential perspective. What elements of life does it suggest hold the most meaning and why?
Essay Topic 3
Sensory details are used frequently by Acevedo in order to underscore character traits, novel themes, and even political stances on particular social issues. Choose three scenes in which sensory details are heavily used and discuss how the sensory details used by Acevedo serve particular purposes within the narrative of The Poet X.
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