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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 and the men take what vocal action before Mr. Pineville agrees to grade the men's test?

2. Stella tells Tony that she might like to have what job one day?

3. How old is Herbert, one of the many boys in the Spencer family?

4. Tony tells Stella that he is going to write about what subject?

5. What is Papa's reply when Stella asks him how he had continued to learn despite being out of school?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Stella feel about Papa's decision to try to register to vote?

2. Whose pieces of writing does Mrs. Grayson choose to enter into the contest and what is each piece about?

3. How do the themes of oppression and brutality appear within the scene outside the general store?

4. What surprising fact does Papa reveal to Stella about Tony?

5. What object does Stella believe gives off a "rich" (208) smell that she has never smelled in Bumblebee before?

6. From what source is the story Mrs. Grayson tells the class about flying?

7. About what topic is the poem Papa recites for Stella?

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. For what reason does Papa no longer have any of the writing he had created as a boy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Determine Draper’s message within the novel Stella by Starlight regarding the idea that mobilization of a community is necessary in order to create change.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Analyze the interplay between the resolution of Stella by Starlight and one of the novel's main messages. How does Draper make connections between these elements and how does their juxtaposition help them get across one main message of the novel?

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