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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. Which of the following shapes of candy does Beatryce request in Chapter Eleven?

2. Chapter Two begins with which of the following?

3. In Chapter Nine, what is noted as being illegal?

4. Chapter Six begins with which of the following?

5. To which town had Jack and his family been fleeing?

Short Essay Questions

1. At the end of Chapter Five, what does Beatryce think?

2. In Chapter Fifteen, what reasons does the soldier give for wishing to be a bag of vegetables?

3. What job does Jack have in his village, and why?

4. What story does Beatryce promise to tell of Edik’s mermaid?

5. In Chapter Eight, what does Beatryce first discuss with *Answelica*?

6. What reason does Jack give for not wanting to know a secret in Chapter Fifteen?

7. Why does Jack start at the approach of horses to his village?

8. How does Edik note feeling about hearing his father’s voice?

9. What reasons do the monks note for keeping Answelica alive?

10. In Chapter Twelve, how does Edik propose concealing Beatryce?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Do the punishments the counselor and his king receive from Ehrengard suffice? What in the novel and in experience suggest that they do or not, and how do they suggest it?

Essay Topic 2

Edik muses that “Again and again, the world insisted upon betrayals, goodbyes” (63). To what extent do the novel and experience bear out his musing? How do the novel and experience do so?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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