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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. Stella uses what adjective to describe the frequency of her parents' arguments?
2. What verb does Stella use to describe to Jojo what the Klan members are doing?
3. Stella sneaks out at night sometimes in order to perform what action?
4. In what location do the "black men of Bumblebee" (9) gather to discuss the resurgence of the Klan?
5. Stella tells her mother that she would love to go to what location in Spindale?
Short Essay Questions
1. Discuss how the theme of courage is depicted within the first ten chapters of the novel.
2. How does the cross outside of New Hope Church echo the novel's depiction of beauty within imperfection?
3. To what location is Stella sent during the meeting that takes place in the Mills' home and why?
4. What does Mama mean when she calls Stella "a gemstone hiding inside a rock" (100)?
5. Why are Jojo and Stella outside in the middle of the night in the novel's opening scene?
6. How does Pastor Patton invoke the idea of technology within his sermon?
7. What aspect of transformation does Stella observe and write about within her "Trees" essay?
8. What realization does Stella make about Dr. Packard and what does she do about her realization?
9. What is the setting of the novel's opening?
10. What aspect of the Klan's reemergence most alarms Papa and why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How is the topic of racially-motivated violence treated within Stella by Starlight and how does its treatment relate to the novel's depicted messages?
Essay Topic 2
Could Stella by Starlight be classified as a coming-of-age story? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
William Faulkner once famously claimed that the most important literature deals with the subject of the human heart in conflict with itself. Explain how the theme of Human versus Self is demonstrated within Draper’s novel Stella by Starlight. Create a decisive, arguable claim and prove it with quotes from the novel.
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