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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How old is Stella?
(a) 11.
(b) 7.
(c) 8.
(d) 9.
2. How many times in her life has Stella seen an airplane in the sky?
(a) 4.
(b) 11.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.
3. Whose skin is likened to the color of rum?
(a) Stella.
(b) Mama.
(c) Jojo.
(d) Papa.
4. When the family goes out to alert the neighborhood about the Klan's resurgence, who is assigned the left side of the street?
(a) Papa.
(b) Jojo.
(c) Mama.
(d) Stella.
5. Stella is the only student in the school who has what trait?
(a) She has straight hair.
(b) She wears braces.
(c) She is left-handed.
(d) She is under five feet tall.
Short Answer Questions
1. What food does Mama offer to Spoon Man on the morning of his departure?
2. Who tells Stella that she would not be allowed in the place Stella wants to go in Spindale?
3. Which character does Stella identify as having attended the Klan rally?
4. What type of candy does each child receive on their way out of Cathy's Candy Store?
5. The kitchen table in the Mills' home had been handmade by whom?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the cross outside of New Hope Church echo the novel's depiction of beauty within imperfection?
2. What does Mama mean when she calls Stella "a gemstone hiding inside a rock" (100)?
3. What philosophy are the black people in Bumblebee said to hold because "it had always been" (5) so?
4. Discuss how the theme of courage is depicted within the first ten chapters of the novel.
5. What plan does Pastor Patton tell the congregation he will undertake the following morning?
6. What is Stella's real name and for what reason does Stella adore her nickname?
7. Why are Jojo and Stella outside in the middle of the night in the novel's opening scene?
8. What is the setting of the novel's opening?
9. Provide a description of Mama's temperament.
10. What aspect of transformation does Stella observe and write about within her "Trees" essay?
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