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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 lie does Grace tell Joaquin and Maya about her long absence from school?
2. How many different times has Joaquin been asked to leave a foster home for one reason or another?
3. What reason is given for Joaquin's long delay in writing back to Maya after she contacts him for the first time?
4. Joaquin knows that he had been placed in foster care by whom?
5. Even before meeting his biological sisters, Joaquin had known that they would both be what?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the author demonstrate the difference between Grace's high school days before Peach and her experiences at school after Peach's birth?
2. What does Grace whisper over and over to her unborn child and how does the detail depict the novel's themes of guilt and responsibility?
3. What are the qualities of Ana's therapy approach that Joaquin appreciates?
4. After two weeks of agony spent missing Peach, what desire brings Grace out of her depression?
5. What is the origin of Peach's nickname?
6. What has always been the strategy Grace's parents have used in regards to her status as an adopted child?
7. Discuss an instance when Joaquin experiences self-loathing.
8. What simile does the narrator use to depict the careful way in which Grace's father tells her that she has biological siblings?
9. What is ironic about Grace's television-watching habits prior to becoming pregnant with Peach?
10. Discuss an instance when Grace displays self-loathing.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze the interplay between the resolution of Robin Benway's novel Far From the Tree and one of the novel's main messages. How does the author make connections between these elements and how does their juxtaposition help the author get across one main message of the novel?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the author's use of humor alongside humanist messages within Robin Benway's novel Far From the Tree.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss how and why the author instills three different humanist messages into the narrative of Far From the Tree.
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