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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. How does Jack contact Viviane to say he’s found her son in the beginning of Chapter 20?
2. Emilienne says in her dream in Chapter 26 that you cannot play bezique with how many players?
3. When Viviane suffers from particularly bad bouts of insomnia, she drinks tea made from the crushed leaves of what flowers, according to the narrator in Chapter 16?
4. What is Henry doing when Viviane encounters him in Jack’s home in Chapter 22?
5. What does Viviane see in the backyard where Jack had been searching for King Tut’s tomb when Viviane met him, in Chapter 22?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who appears at Ava’s window in the beginning of Chapter 15? How does Ava respond?
2. How is Emilienne’s dream described in the beginning of Chapter 26? Who appears in her dream?
3. How do Ava and Cardigan go about preparing for the Summer Solstice festival in Chapter 19?
4. What project do Gabe and Henry begin working on together in Chapter 14?
5. What is related in the journal entry that concludes Chapter 18? When is this entry dated?
6. What leads Emilienne to call the police in Chapter 23? Where does she send the police when she calls?
7. How does Henry respond when Viviane asks him if he is ok in the truck in Chapter 22?
8. How does Ava feel when she sees Rowe returning home in Chapter 26? What does Fatima’s ghost say to Ava before departing?
9. How does Ava describe the after-story of Marigold Pie in Chapter 26? Where did Marigold Pie go?
10. How does Emilienne get home from the bakery in Chapter 21? What conversation takes place during this journey?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the character of Marigold Pie in the novel. When Marigold Pie is introduced, how much does she weigh? How does Marigold Pie’s behavior and appearance change once she begins eating sweets compulsively? How does Marigold’s sister respond to the changes in Marigold?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the narrative style of the novel. Is the narrative related from a first, second, or third-person narrator? Is the narrator involved in the action of the story? Is the story told in the present or past tense? What effects does each of these authorial choices have on the reader?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the supernatural elements in The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender. How does the narrator explain the strange phenomena that takes place in the story? How is Ava’s lineage related to the supernatural?
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