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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 observes Golan from a hiding place in Chapter 10?
2. Who is waiting for Jacob when he returns to the Home in Chapter 7?
3. Who is Malthus?
4. What state is Jacob's father in frequently?
5. According to Enoch in Chapter 8, what doesn't Emma believe the children should do?
Short Essay Questions
1. What strangeness does Jacob notice when he wakes in the morning in Chapter 8?
2. How is it apparent that there may be a budding romance between Jacob and Emma in Chapter 7?
3. What happens at dinner in Chapter 6 that causes Jacob sudden panic and how do the children react?
4. Describe the children's quest to reach the lighthouse island in Chapter 10.
5. Why is Jacob's father almost drunk when Jacob returns to the Priest's Hole of his era?
6. What is Emma's reaction when she finds Jacob looking over the letters between her and Abe, and how does this confrontation make Jacob leery of Emma's advances?
7. What does Jacob realize is true about his "peculiarity" in Chapter 9?
8. How does Jacob make his first monster kill?
9. What do the children do when Jacob arrives back at the home the next day in Chapter 7?
10. Who are several more of the children Jacob meets in Chapter 7?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Characters are an integral and important part of almost all novels. Discuss the following:
1. Compare/contrast the characters of Jacob and his father. How are they similar? How are they different? Is there a flaw in each of their personalities? Be specific and give examples.
2. Compare/contrast the characters of Emma and Miss Peregrine. How do they seem different? Which do you like more? Why? Which one seems more of a well-rounded character?
3. Thoroughly analyze how three of the secondary characters in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children help drive the plot and what their contribution is to the storyline. Are any of the secondary characters unnecessary? Indispensable? Which of the secondary characters are likable? Which are either unlikable or even despicable? Be specific and give examples.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the following:
1. What is a plot? What are the most important elements of a plot and their definition? Do all novels have a plot? Why or why not?
2. Write a brief synopsis of the plot of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, identifying where the various elements of the plot occur (Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution or denouement). Do you find it difficult to identify the elements of the plot? Why or why not? What about the various elements of the plot?
3. Identify the major sub-plots and their elements in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. (The subplots may not contain every element of a major plot). Do the sub-plots add to the main plot? Why or why not? Are the sub-plots interesting in and of themselves? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
In Chapter 5 one of the photos is that of a tunnel with a light coming from its mouth. This photo is particularly interesting, in that it has significant metaphoric value with a couple of possible, but related, meanings. On the one hand, a long dark tunnel is often evocative of both the human birth canal and the journey new beings take down it. Also, the "light at the end of the tunnel" is a phrase/image often used to evoke hope, or possibility. Finally, there is the evocation of death.
1. Do you think everyone who moves into a new phase in life goes from darkness into light? Why or why not? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.
2. Why would shedding light on the secrets of Abe's life provide hope to Jacob? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.
3. Jacob's moving into a new life was precipitated by the death of someone he loved. Do you think all growth has to have some traumatic event to occur before growth can begin? Why or why not?
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