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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. Spoon Man makes a joke about what event that is happening at the time of the narrative?

2. What is the name of the school attended by all of the white children in Bumblebee?

3. The animal Jojo mistakenly believes to be headless has what color head?

4. Stella and Tony had walked to school together since they were in what grade?

5. What food does Mama offer to Spoon Man on the morning of his departure?

Short Essay Questions

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

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. What aspect of the Klan's reemergence most alarms Papa and why?

5. What object inside the Mills' home symbolizes the family's unity and love?

6. What aspect of transformation does Stella observe and write about within her "Trees" essay?

7. To what location is Stella sent during the meeting that takes place in the Mills' home and why?

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

9. What is the setting of the novel's opening?

10. How does the cross outside of New Hope Church echo the novel's depiction of beauty within imperfection?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Analyze Draper’s inclusion of the dream motif within Stella by Starlight. With which of the novel’s major themes does the dream motif dovetail?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how and why Draper instills three different humanist messages into the narrative of Stella by Starlight.

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