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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 keeps Claire from asking the boat worker the questions she would like to ask him about Elsewhere?
2. When Claire shows up again at the Nurturing Center, what reason is she given for being turned away?
3. What is the name of the male Nurturer's son?
4. When Claire sees the male Nurturer out on his bicycle, how many months has it been since they have seen one another?
5. When Claire goes to the school to pick up the biology posters, what is the reason that there are no children in the school?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Claire realize during breakfast one day when she sees the other Fish Hatchery workers cleaning up their tables and getting ready to begin work?
2. Why is Claire so terrified when she is first told that she has been decertified as a Vessel?
3. What change does Claire see in Jonas between the time she sees him racing another boy on his bicycle and the time she sees him walking alone along the river?
4. What does one of the Vessels report it had felt like to cease taking the pills when she had been assigned the role of Birthmother?
5. Recognizing that she cannot ask for Sophia outright at the Nurturing Center, what does Claire say to the receptionist when she arrives?
6. Why does Jeanette, one of the Fish Hatchery workers, feel surprise when the name Paul is given to one of the Newchildren at the Ceremony?
7. What is Claire's son's comfort item and what had hers been during her childhood?
8. For what reason are the Nurturers considering keeping Claire's son at the center for another year before assigning him to a parental unit?
9. What reason does the narrator give for all of the Fish Hatchery workers being fond of the director, Dimitri?
10. What sets the birth of Claire's Product apart from those of the other Birthmothers in her dormitory?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
One of the genres the novel fits into is the coming-of-age genre. What are the author's main messages concerning adolescence and the process of growing up?
Essay Topic 2
Trace the characterization arc of Claire's character throughout the novel.
Essay Topic 3
The novel Son does not shy away from including disturbing details when describing the sexual abuse forced on Alys during her childhood or when explaining Trademaster's removal of parts of Einar's feet with an axe. Some may say that the harsh realities depicted in Lois Lowry's novel Son are too disturbing for a young audience. Write a persuasive essay in which you argue for or against the use of the novel Son in schools, and be sure to include several logical reasons with accompanying concrete details to support your claim.
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