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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 does Nora write on the first line of her essay about Patch?

2. What does Chauncey do at the opening of the story?

3. Who is Vee Sky?

4. What does Nora see on the blackboard in biology class?

5. What is wrong about Nora's health?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Nora when she is driving home in Vee's car?

2. What does Dorothea tell Nora she is going to do?

3. Where do Nora, Vee, Elliot and Jules go, what does Jules do, who else is there and what does Vee talk about to Elliot?

4. What is the assignment for the day in biology class?

5. How does Nora feel about the painting on the Archangel and what happens when she is on it?

6. How does Nora spend her evening after the change in biology?

7. How does Nora find out something about Elliot's past and what does she find out?

8. Where does Nora go to school, what does she find in the biology class in the first chapter and who does she sit with in that class?

9. Why does Patch take Nora home from the arcade?

10. How does Nora feel when she gets off the Archangel, what does Patch ask her and what is her response?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss one of the following:

1. Thoroughly analyze how the setting informs the plot in Hush, Hush.

2. Trace and analyze one major theme of Hush, Hush. How is the theme represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?

3. Trace and analyze two secondary themes of Hush, Hush. How are the themes represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss one of the following:

1. Trace and analyze the theme of growth in Hush, Hush. Consider the following questions as you write: What characters are most concerned with growth? Why? What are some symbols of growth? Symbols of rigidity? What characters seem rigid?

2. Trace and analyze the theme of courage in Hush, Hush. Which characters struggle with this issue? Why? Which characters seem to possess courage? Why?

3. Trace and analyze the theme of trust in Hush, Hush. Consider the development of trust in Nora for Patch and the development of trust in Patch for Nora.

Essay Topic 3

Many novels, and perhaps a majority, of novels ends on a happy note. Discuss the following:

1. Why do you think many (most?) people want what they perceive as a happy or good ending to a novel? Explain your opinion. Do you? Why or why not?

2. What are three reasons to read fiction? Discuss each one in light of Hush, Hush and whether or not it fulfills all three, two or one of the reasons you mention. Give examples as to why Hush, Hush is or is not successful in fulfilling the reasons you discuss.

3. Do you think reading solely for entertainment is as good a reason to read as any other? Why or why not? Can any work of fiction or non-fiction, no matter how poorly written, enlighten, teach, stimulate thought? Why or why not?

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