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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. What does Jack posit Bibspeak would have said had she been present with him, Beatryce, Answelica, Cannoc, and Edik?
2. An illustration of which of the following precedes Book the Third?
3. Book the Third ends with which of the following?
4. Chapter Forty starts with which of the following?
5. Chapter Thirty-five starts with which of the following?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Edik note he cannot go backwards?
2. In Chapter Twenty-six, what reason does Jack cite for mistrusting Cannoc?
3. What does Edik say in Chapter Thirty-six as he is confronted by the man with the knife?
4. In Chapter Twenty-five, what justification does Jack give for lying to Cannoc?
5. Summarize Cannoc’s account of leaving the throne.
6. Why does Edik weep when the king’s soldiers question him at the monastery?
7. What becomes of Cannoc’s crown?
8. How is Cannoc’s tree home described?
9. What does Jack do to comfort Beatryce in Chapter Thirty-five?
10. What does Jack recognize as a sign of his desire to learn to read at the beginning of Chapter Thirty-four?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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 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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