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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 is Lorelei's sister's name?
2. What is the name of Meg's third child?
3. When Meg finally talks to Rory via Skype after Lorelei dies, where is Rory?
4. When Beth comes in from her run and sees her father, her mother, and Vicky fighting, what are they fighting over?
5. Besides her weight loss, what physical clue to Lorelei's ill health does Meg notice during Easter of 1999?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Rory think is Lorelei's way of dealing with Rhys's death?
2. How does Colin's reaction to the art wall show that even early in the children's lives he is struggling with Lorelei's collecting?
3. What foreshadowing alerts the reader that something terrible has happened between Meg and Beth?
4. What surprises Beth about Molly's existence, and what does it make her realize about herself?
5. When Molly asks Meg whether she would have liked Rhys,what is Meg's response?
6. What is Alfie's full name, and what is its significance?
7. When Kayleigh is talking to Beth about quitting smoking, what does Beth assume she is really saying, and why?
8. Why is it so meaningful to Meg when Molly takes her hand before they first enter Bird House together after Lorelei's death?
9. How does the very first passage describing a Bird family Easter egg hunt characterize Meg?
10. What sign of growth does Lorelei show in her New Years email to Jim?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the significance of the thematic motif of birds in The House We Grew Up In? How does Jewell use the family name, Lorelei's devotion to the Easter egg hunt and collecting the egg foils, and other references to birds to convey ideas about home and family? Write an essay in which you take and defend a position about the symbolic significance of birds and things related to birds in this text. Support your claims with both quoted and paraphrased evidence drawn from throughout the text, making sure to cite quoted evidence in MLA format.
Essay Topic 2
What relationship does the novel posit between a failure to understand your own needs and a failure to understand the needs of others? How does this relationship illuminate something important about Lorelei's and Colin's parenting? Write an essay in which you show the ways in which Lorelei and Colin fail to understand their own needs and then suggest how this lack of understanding of how to prioritize needs impacted their parenting. Discuss what the Bird children really needed in their childhoods, what Lorelei and Colin offered them, and how the gap between these impacted the Bird children.
Essay Topic 3
The title of this novel focuses the reader's attention on Bird House itself. Why? How does the title relate to the book's theme? Write an essay that analyzes the book's title and Bird House's central relationship to the book's concerns with family, generational dysfunction, renewal, and personal growth. Support your assertions with evidence drawn from throughout the text.
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