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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. Rather than completing her Saturday chore, Stella would usually rather take what action?
2. Who convinces the reluctant member of the Mills family to come along on voting day?
3. What kind of food does Mr. O'Brian give to Stella for free?
4. Mr. Pineville tells the men assembled at the voting registration office that they do not deserve what?
5. How much do Papa and the other black men have to pay in order to register to vote?
Short Essay Questions
1. For what reason does Papa no longer have any of the writing he had created as a boy?
2. What skill does Stella put into practice on demand in the voter registration office?
3. The narrator states that Stella had been taught what lesson from a "very young" (245) age?
4. How does Stella feel about Papa's decision to try to register to vote?
5. About what topic is the poem Papa recites for Stella?
6. Who goes to the sheriff's office in Bumblebee in order to vote?
7. What is the significance of Papa's mention of a "standing stone" (124)?
8. Who goes to the sheriff's office in order to lend support to the voters?
9. What is surprising about the choices Mrs. Grayson makes for the contest?
10. What is Mama's main emotion in response to Papa's decision to vote in the election?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Look carefully at the passages of Stella by Starlight that describe the close relationship between Stella’s sense of hope and her goal of becoming a journalist. What is Draper’s purpose for portraying the nature of this connection?
Essay Topic 2
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 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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