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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 the name Becca has given to her worn out car?
2. At what point in her story does Gemma shudder in Chapter 3?
3. Why does Stan plan to go to Becca's house in Chapter 9?
4. What is the name on the paper documenting the arrival of a refugee into America?
5. What is Gemma's room number at the nursing home?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 3, who does Gemma say was not invited to the King's party?
2. When she investigates her grandmother's newspaper clippings, what does Becca learn from Arnie at the Palladium Times in Oswego?
3. How does Becca explain having never seen Gemma's carved box before in Chapter 8?
4. As she continues the story in Chapter 6, how long does Gemma say the cursed people in the story slept for?
5. In Chapter 4, what do we learn about Gemma's past?
6. What name does Becca have for her car in Chapter 2? Why has she named her car?
7. After Gemma's funeral, what do Becca's parents reveal was found among Gemma's things?
8. Where are Becca's work offices housed? What were Becca's first 'real' articles at the Advocate about?
9. In Chapter 7, what does Gemma tell Becca she will probably lose interest in after she starts school?
10. In Chapter 6, why does Becca suppose Gemma was so caught up with the part of her story which said the curse would affect Briar Rose's whole family?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze Yolen's use of symbolism in the novel "Briar Rose". What are some examples of symbolism in the novel? What do these symbols represent? How do the examples of symbolism relate to the theme of death and the Holocaust?
Essay Topic 2
Gemma's Sleeping Beauty story is an allegory of Gemma's experiences in an extermination camp during WWII. What was the Holocaust? Describe the camp Gemma was sent to. How did this experience impact her life?
Essay Topic 3
What is an allegory? How is the novel "Briar Rose" an allegory of the sufferings experienced by those imprisoned in concentration and extermination camps during WWII?
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