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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. To which of the following is Izzy compared?

2. At which kind of restaurant does Sierra note Culebra is scheduled to play?

3. Chapter Eighteen begins with which of the following?

4. Which of the following does Sierra note in the photograph of the shadowshapers?

5. When does Sierra note having returned from her expedition to Prospect Park to shadowshape with Robbie?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Coney Island described when Sierra and her companions reach it?

2. How is El Mar described with Culebra plays there?

3. How does Nydia describe the Sorrows when Sierra asks her about them?

4. What occasioned the fight between Carmen and Lázaro?

5. As they proceed towards Manny’s printing press, why does Sierra comfort Bennie?

6. How does Sierra attempt to repel the corpuscules that confront her and her companions at Coney Island?

7. Why does Robbie note that shadowshaping magic is stronger for those who do their own artwork?

8. How is a normal night at El Mar described?

9. Why does Jerome suggest the reference to the crossroads indicates the intersection of Eastern Parkway and Atlantic Avenue?

10. How is Manny described when, as a corpuscule, he confronts Sierra at Coney Island?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explicate the significance of the protagonist’s mother’s name: María Carmen Corona Santiago.

Essay Topic 2

Overall, what is the most important theme of Shadowshaper. What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Much is made in the novel of Robbie being of Haitian descent. What is the significance of him having such a background, as opposed to another from among the African Diaspora, and how is that significance manifested?

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