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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. The writing depicted in the chapter entitled "Truth" displays what trait?

2. What beverage does Mama offer to Spoon Man on the morning of his departure?

3. In what grade is Stella?

4. How many children are in the Spencer family?

5. The kitchen table in the Mills' home had been handmade by whom?

Short Essay Questions

1. What realization does Stella make about Dr. Packard and what does she do about her realization?

2. Why are Jojo and Stella outside in the middle of the night in the novel's opening scene?

3. Discuss how the theme of courage is depicted within the first ten chapters of the novel.

4. What racial inequalities are depicted within the voter registration process in Spindale?

5. How are Jojo and Stella related?

6. What comment does Papa make about shame after the pastor's sermon?

7. What sight alerts Stella to the identity of the one of the Klansmen at the rally?

8. What happens to Billy when he moves to open his own blacksmith business?

9. What does Mama mean when she calls Stella "a gemstone hiding inside a rock" (100)?

10. What is unique about the Spencer family?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Could Stella by Starlight be classified as a coming-of-age story? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Write a critical essay about Stella by Starlight while using the critical power theory lens of feminist theory. Use textual evidence to back up your strong, specific claim regarding the novel's treatment of gender roles, the objectification of women, female empowerment, misogyny's role within society, or any other issues related to feminist theory that can be found in the novel.

Essay Topic 3

Sensory details are used frequently by Draper in order to create vivid pictures of each character's progression through the narrative of Stella by Starlight. Choose three scenes in which sensory details are heavily used and discuss how the sensory details used serve Draper’s creation of vivid characters to populate the narrative.

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