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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 season do the flowers bloom?

2. What is in the leather trunk?

3. What method is used to teach Bod about the real world?

4. Why does Bod experience some changes before he leaves the graveyard?

5. How old is Bod when he goes to school for the first time?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Bod want to go to school?

2. What strange things does Scarlett find when she researches the death of Bod’s family?

3. How does Bod try to stop Mo from doing what she does to the other students at school?

4. What helps Bod be successful at school?

5. How does Bod defeat the Jacks’?

6. Who is the Lady on the Grey?

7. How does the novel end?

8. How does Bod feel during the Danse Macabre?

9. What is Jacks threatened with?

10. Why does Silas not want Bod to go to school?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Training and education are topics of discussion in the novel. Where do these topics appear in the novel, and what affect do they have on the characters involved in those scenes?

Essay Topic 2

There are a number of different settings in the novel. Describe some of these settings. Why might the author have chosen these settings for the plot to take place?

Essay Topic 3

Diversity and discrimination are two major and related themes in the novel. Where do these themes appear, and how do they work together to propel the plot of the novel?

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