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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. Who has been breaking Jude’s ceramics as revealed in Chapter Two?

2. What happens to Jude’s art on display at critique in Chapter Two?

3. What did Jude’s mother write about Guillermo as said in Chapter Two?

4. Who does Sandy suggest that Jude work with in Chapter Two?

5. Why does Jude think she brought bad luck on her family as said in Chapter Two?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Sandy tell Jude she got into CSA in Chapter Two? Why does this surprise Jude?

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

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

4. What is Guillermo’s and Oscar’s relationship as said in Chapter Three? How did they come to meet?

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

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

7. How are Noah’s mom and dad described by Noah in Chapter One? What is his relationship to each of them?

8. What does Jude initially tell Guillermo she wants to sculpt in Chapter Three? Why does she want to sculpt this?

9. What does Jude find in Oscar’s room in Chapter Three? What is the prophecy about her?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter Two, Jude narrates how her mother would ask her if she wanted to be “that girl” (45). In Chapter Four, Guillermo tells Jude, “You will put that girl in the sculpture you make with me” (191). In Chapter Seven, Jude has a revelation about her interpretation of her mother’s words of being that girl. How does the novel reinterpret this phrase from chapter to chapter? What does Jude’s re-claiming of the word say about how she has grown as a character? Write at least four pages with four examples from the novel.

Essay Topic 2

Grief held inside is shown to hold characters down so they can no longer do what they love or be who they are. What does the novel say must happen for grief to be released? Explore this through at least two characters in the novel and their journey to release their grief.

Essay Topic 3

Jude says at the end of the novel, “Love does as it undoes. It goes after, with equal tenacity: joy and heartbreak” (355). How is this morality of the novel shown in the characters' journey? Choose two characters and compare this morality to their lives and experiences. How do their experiences add up morally in the end? Write at least four pages with four examples from the novel.

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