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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. Why does Jazz not like the dress she wears to the recital?

2. Where is the piano that Jazz and Antonia are allowed to use?

3. Jazz jokes back with Antonia about her foster parents and asks if they make her eat a certain food. What is that food?

4. Who tells Karen that Antonia's father is not dead?

5. Jazz feels about the polonaise like Antonia feels about what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Jazz think Antonia might not want to be seen with her?

2. What do Antonia and Jazz decide to do to give Mrs. Bartoli a lesson on stereotyping?

3. Explain Antonia's reaction to Karen.

4. What was the last thing that Antonia's father said to her?

5. What does Jazz say about the definition of a dream?

6. How does Antonia defend her Dad's abandonment of the family?

7. How does Antonia describe her sense of isolation and loneliness after seeing her mother in the hospital?

8. Several times throughout the book, the term "ya-ya" is used with reference to Antonia. What is the significance of this term?

9. Discuss Jazz's dream.

10. Explain Dr. DiLeo's pairing up of Antonia and Jazz. Who was counseling who and what was the ultimate result?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze the author's choice of not identifying a specific place for the setting of this novel. Explain what setting you think it has, giving credible examples. (For instance, does it take place in a village? In a warm climate? A cold climate? Is it a big city, a small city, or a rural town?) Argue that the author was right in not providing a specific setting, or argue that the novel would have been better if it had been set in a particular city or town.

Essay Topic 2

Telling the truth versus telling lies is a theme that comes up over and over in the book. Give three examples from the text where a character does not tell the whole truth. Take each of these examples and illustrate the impact that the lie has on the person telling it.

Essay Topic 3

Define the category of Young Adult Literature. Show how this novel fits into that category by providing at least three examples of how it meets the genre criteria.

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