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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. How does Charlie, after reading the book, now feel about Patterson's Curse?
2. Whom do Eliza and Charlie NOT encounter on their walk to the glade in Chapter Seven?
3. How has color returned to An Lu's garden in Chapter Seven?
4. How does Jasper plan in Chapter Seven to get Mad Jack to confess?
5. What new book is Charlie reading in Chapter Five?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the imagery of Charlie and Jasper's walk to Mad Jack's add to the suspense of the scene in Chapter Seven?
2. Why does Jeffrey look up to Bruce Lee?
3. In Chapter Eight, what has become of the members of the Bucktin family since Charlie discovered his mother's affair?
4. Charlie envisions leaving Corrigan with Jasper. Delve into some of the literary allusions he chooses for the journey. Do those stories bode well for the adventure he desires?
5. Who is Mad Jack Lionel, and why has he been calling out to Jasper all these years?
6. Explore the beating of An Lu. What is the precipitating factor? Who are some prominent characters in the beating and in Lu's defense?
7. Why does the Vigil make Charlie feel that he and Jasper have no real chance of finding Laura's killer?
8. Why is Charlie so distressed to learn that his father has written a novel?
9. During the cricket game in Chapter Six, what is happening between Charlie and Eliza?
10. How is the town's response to the attack on Mr. Lu different from the abuse that Mrs. Lu suffers?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The Australian calendar is quite different from that of the United States and the rest of the Northern Hemisphere. Write an essay detailing the school calendar and the seasons of Australia, and how that reversal might inform our own reading of the text.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay in which you chronicle the friendship between Jeffrey Lu and Charlie Bucktin. What makes them such a great match?
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay in which you explore comparisons and/or contrasts between the novel of Jasper Jones and one of the many films to which Charlie alludes.
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