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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 are Jude’s Flying Women, as said in Chapter One?

2. What does Brian like as said in Chapter Three?

3. How does Jude use a Google search as said in Chapter Two?

4. What is Grandma Sweetwine’s nickname for God as said in Chapter Two?

5. How does Noah think of Jude when they are fighting as said in Chapter Three?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Oscar say happened with his mother’s death in Chapter Three? Why does he feel guilty about it?

2. What happens when Zephyr and Fry attack Noah in Chapter One? Why do they let him go?

3. What does Guillermo tell Jude about drawing in Chapter Three as she draws Oscar? What does he have her do while she is learning?

4. What happens when Jude knocks each time on Guillermo’s studio in Chapter Two?

5. What happens when Fry and Big Head interrupt Noah and Brian in the woods in Chapter Three? How does Brian deal with them?

6. What does Noah think about Brian’s when seeing him talking with the Hornet Girls in Chapter Three?

7. How does Jude get Guillermo to mentor her in Chapter Three?

8. What is the “Invisible Museum” of Chapter One? How do we learn this?

9. Why does Jude go to Devil’s Drop in Chapter Two? What does she think about seeing Noah jump off Devil’s Drop?

10. Who does Jude meet at the church on the way to Guillermo’s studio in Chapter Two? What happens?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Grandma Sweetwine says, “A broken heart is an open heart” (212). Look at one character in the novel and examine their story arc. How is this saying true for them? In other words, how is their heart broken, and how does this broken-ness connect to being able to be open? What are they open to? Write three pages with at least four textual examples.

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter Five, Noah’s mom compares him to his dad and tells him, “Jude and I have quite a bit of armor on us [...] It takes a lot to break through” (284). Noah has an antagonistic relationship with his dad for most of the novel, while Jude has an antagonistic relationship with her mom. What does each of the twin’s relationships with their parents, and how each of these relationships changes or is re-understood in the novel, say about family dynamics? Write at least three pages with four textual examples.

Essay Topic 3

Jude says to Guillermo, “I’ve been thinking that you might be, I don’t know, maybe a little magical or something because in my sculpture textbook it talked all about those angels you used to carve as a kid, and it said you were believed to be enchanted, or possessed even” (160). How is this passage connected to the novel’s ideas of where art comes from? Write three pages with four supporting details.

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