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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 do Jacob's parents and the police not believe?

2. How do Jacob and his father get to the island?

3. What does Jacob become more curious about as he gets older?

4. What does Jacob's father say about Abe that angers Jacob?

5. What form can an ymbryne take?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Jacob's conversation with Miss Peregrine when they meet in Chapter 6.

2. What does Jacob say about how his life has changed in the Prologue?

3. What does Jacob first find during the exploration of the abandoned Home in Chapter 5?

4. What does Jacob find inside the old trunk?

5. How is the last leg of the journey to Cairnholm accomplished, and what do Jacob and his father see in the waters along the way?

6. What does Jacob watch out of the window of the Home in Chapter 6?

7. How does Jacob open the locked trunk he finds in Chapter 5?

8. What does Miss Peregrine say about ymbrynes?

9. How do Jacob and the other two children get to the Home and how does Emma act towards Jacob on the way?

10. Describe Jacob's conversation with Martin Pagett's Uncle Oggie.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss one of the following:

1. Trace and analyze the theme of growth in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Consider the following questions as you write: What characters are most concerned with growth? Why? What are some symbols of growth? Symbols of rigidity? What characters seem rigid?

2. Trace and analyze the theme of courage in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Which characters struggle with this issue? Why? Which characters seem to possess courage? Why?

3. Trace and analyze the theme of death in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Who has died a physical death? Were their deaths necessary to the story? Who has died a metaphorical death? In what way was the metaphorical death occurring?

Essay Topic 2

Many readers of fiction place themselves in the position of one character, wondering if they would do the same thing as that character. Discuss the following:

1. Do you think one of the values of literature is to serve as a reflection of oneself? Why or why not?

2. Socrates said "Know thyself." How can reading a book such as Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children help a reader to know him/herself? Do you find yourself reflecting on your own character and abilities when reading Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children? Why or why not?

3. Choose one specific incident in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children to discuss and compare one of the characters' responses to how you think you would respond.

Essay Topic 3

Often, authors will write about "what they know," and sometimes knowing a little about the author makes the books more interesting. Discuss the following:

1. Give a brief biographical sketch of Ransom Riggs.

2. What in Riggs's background may have helped him in writing Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children? What may have influenced the way he depicts various characters and scenes?

3. Do you think there is always some of the author's own life in his/her novels? Why or why not? Give examples.

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