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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 food does Mama offer to Spoon Man on the morning of his departure?
2. What beverage does Mama offer to Spoon Man on the morning of his departure?
3. Stella sneaks out at night sometimes in order to perform what action?
4. Spoon Man makes a joke about what event that is happening at the time of the narrative?
5. What verb does Stella use to describe to Jojo what the Klan members are doing?
Short Essay Questions
1. What racial inequalities are depicted within the voter registration process in Spindale?
2. Discuss how the theme of courage is depicted within the first ten chapters of the novel.
3. What does Mama mean when she calls Stella "a gemstone hiding inside a rock" (100)?
4. What aspect of the Klan's reemergence most alarms Papa and why?
5. To what location is Stella sent during the meeting that takes place in the Mills' home and why?
6. What is Stella's real name and for what reason does Stella adore her nickname?
7. What is the setting of the novel's opening?
8. What plan does Pastor Patton tell the congregation he will undertake the following morning?
9. How are Jojo and Stella related?
10. Provide a description of Mama's temperament.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What message does Draper send within the pages of Stella by Starlight concerning the link between brutality and oppression?
Essay Topic 2
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.
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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