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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. In Chapter Eight, which of the following names does Beatryce posit for Answelica before learning the goat’s true name?
2. Book the First begins with which of the following?
3. Chapter Three begins with which of the following?
4. To whom does DiCamillo dedicate the book?
5. With what does the soldier lying abed in Jack’s village begin his testimony?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter Twelve, how does Edik propose concealing Beatryce?
2. Why is Edik tardy in feeding Answelica?
3. In Chapter Eight, what does Beatryce first discuss with *Answelica*?
4. In Chapter Nine, whom does Edik note expecting to be literate?
5. In Chapter Eight, how does Edik describe the Chronicles of Sorrowing?
6. How does Edik note feeling about hearing his father’s voice?
7. At the end of Chapter Thirteen, how long does Bibspeak make Jack repeat his name?
8. What reason does Edik give for having been in a field with Answelica early in Chapter Three?
9. What do the king and the counselor discuss in their interlude in Chapter Six?
10. In Chapter Five, how does Beatryce describe the seahorse?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Cannoc remarks that “No one comes looking for a king. For as soon as a king disappears, those who would replace him start to scheme and calculate about how to take the crown for themselves” (109). To what extent do the novel and experience bear out his remark? How do the novel and experience do so?
Essay Topic 2
Much is made of the blueness of the sky. How does DiCamillo present the color, how does that align with and deviate from typical associations with the color, what effect does that alignment / deviation have, and how is the effect achieved?
Essay Topic 3
Edik muses on the following question (117): “And shouldn’t home be the place where you are allowed to be yourself, loved as yourself?” What answer to that question does the novel advance, and how does it do so?
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