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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. The first room in which Girl is placed had previously served as what kind of facility?

2. Both Ellie and Julia know "that the overwhelming number of child abductions" (94) are perpetrated in what way?

3. How many pounds has Ellie's best female friend gained in the few years prior to the novel's opening?

4. What does Ellie threaten to do to the local reporter if he publishes anything about Julia?

5. Ellie says that until the arrival of Girl, her most difficult policing job involved what activity?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are Cal and Peanut?

2. What aspect of Max's character does Julia admit to being seduced by at the end of Chapter 11?

3. Provide an example of Julia feeling rejected by her father in her youth.

4. How does the motif of dreams enter the narrative in Chapter 8?

5. What coping mechanism does Julia use to deal with the feelings evoked by seeing her ballerina music box in her childhood room?

6. In what way does the theme of hope enter the narrative in relation to Julia's position as a psychiatrist?

7. What does Julia mean when she tells Max that Girl is "just like a cat" (81)?

8. From whose perspective is the novel narrated when Chapter 1 opens?

9. What does the piano symbolize within the narrative?

10. What kinds of objects terrify Girl and how do Julia, Ellie, Peanut and Max address the problem when they move Girl to Ellie's house?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze the ways in which the themes of adaptability and resignation appear within Hannah’s novel Magic Hour. What message is Hannah sending about these two themes over the course of the narrative?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze Hannah’s focus on the theme of isolation in Magic Hour. What message is Hannah sending about being alone and how does this message intertwine with some other element of the text?

Essay Topic 3

Trace the characterization arc of Ellie’s character throughout the novel Magic Hour. Discuss whether Ellie is a round or flat character and whether she is a static or dynamic character.

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