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

2. Which of the following is the name of one of Beatryce’s brothers?

3. Book the Second ends with which of the following?

4. What are the first words Jack says to Bibspeak?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the king and the counselor discuss in their interlude in Chapter Six?

2. In Chapter Six, what does Edik note wanting his letters to illuminate?

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

4. How long does Chapter Thirteen note that Bibspeak had been in the world?

5. At the end of Chapter Thirteen, how long does Bibspeak make Jack repeat his name?

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

7. Why do the monks purpose to send Beatryce on the errand to Jack’s village?

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

9. At the beginning of Chapter Fourteen, what sobriquets does Bibspeak apply to Jack?

10. What does Beatryce think about as she prepares to take the soldier’s testimony in Jack’s village?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

The novel orients itself around a prophetic text: the Chronicles of Sorrowing. What significance inheres in the name of that text? How does the novel support the idea of that significance?

Essay Topic 3

Overall, how does the novel address the issue of trauma? What in the text indicates as much, and how does it do so?

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