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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 activity does Max undertake alone each Friday night?

2. Who tells Ellie that it has been too long since someone has taken care of her?

3. Ellie tells Girl that Julia had first stated her plan to become a doctor when she was how old?

4. There are seats for how many reporters at the first press conference about Girl?

5. How many reporters are said to be "huddled on the courthouse steps" (3) as Julia approaches the side entrance?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are Cal and Peanut?

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

3. Name two things the media is said to have ignored about Julia's situation.

4. What shift in narration occurs between Chapters 1 and 2?

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

6. How does Ellie feel about hosting the press conference in Rain Valley?

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

8. What does the piano symbolize within the narrative?

9. In what way does Hannah connect the theme of secrecy to the nature of small towns?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Read a lengthy interview with Kristin Hannah in which she discusses her writing process, inspiration, or purpose. Write an essay explaining the connection between several of Hannah’s answers and a major theme presented within the text of Magic Hour.

Essay Topic 2

What message does Magic Hour send about the American media and how does this message connect to another theme within the text?

Essay Topic 3

Sensory details are used frequently by Hannah in order to create vivid pictures of each character's progression through the narrative of Magic Hour. Choose three scenes in which sensory details are heavily used and discuss how the sensory details used serve Hannah’s creation of vivid characters to populate the narrative.

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