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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 does Bronwyn dive down and retrieve in Chapter 10?

2. About what does Jacob worry as he goes back through the cairn in Chapter 7?

3. What has been killed while Jacob is gone this day in Chapter 7?

4. Who cannot enter loops?

5. What does Jacob say his grandfather sent Jacob to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What would happen if the children left the loop in their own time period?

2. What is wrong with Victor in Chapter 8 and what does his sister want Enoch to do about it?

3. Describe the children's quest to reach the lighthouse island in Chapter 10.

4. Why is Miss Peregrine angry with Jacob when he returns to the Home in Chapter 8?

5. What strangeness does Jacob notice when he wakes in the morning in Chapter 8?

6. Why are the townspeople in Jacob's time period upset when Jacob returns in the evening in Chapter 7?

7. Describe a couple of the children who Miss Peregrine introduces to Jacob in Chapter 6.

8. How do the emotions between Emma and Jacob intensify in Chapter 8?

9. Who are several more of the children Jacob meets in Chapter 7?

10. Why can't Jacob's father or Miss Peregrine help Jacob solve his dilemma in Chapter 10?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

One of the enduring myths of the human race is that of The Hero's Journey. Jacob leaves his home, embarks on a simultaneous outer and inner journey, and emerges transformed, with a new world view and perspective.

The reason this particular point in Jacob's story is such a good place to comment on its relationship to The Hero's Journey is that his emergence from darkness into light, his "rebirth" is an example of a motif or repeated image that very often, almost inescapably, appears in Hero's Journey narratives.

1. Discuss what you see is the outer journey that Jacob undertakes. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. Discuss Jacob's inner journey and how he was changed by it. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

3. Discuss why it might be true that a Hero's Journey always involves moving from darkness into light, in the form especially of self knowledge. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Characters are an important part of what makes Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children interesting. Discuss the following:

1. Thoroughly discuss and analyze Jacob. What are his strengths? His weaknesses? How does he contribute to the plot? Is he a sympathetic character? Is he always likable? Never likable? Use specific examples to illustrate your ideas.

2. Thoroughly discuss and analyze the character of Emma. What are her strengths? Her weaknesses? How does she contribute to the plot? Is she a sympathetic character? Is she ever likable? Never likable? Use specific examples to illustrate your ideas.

3. Thoroughly discuss and analyze the character of Miss Peregrine. What are her strengths? Her weaknesses? How does she contribute to the plot? Is she a sympathetic character? Is she ever likable? Never likable? Use specific examples to illustrate your ideas.

Essay Topic 3

There are a number of interesting questions raised by Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Consider and discuss the following questions that Riggs most likely want readers to consider and think through carefully:

1. What does the term "author agenda" mean?

2. Name one idea/concept you think may have been a part of the Riggs's agenda. Analyze that idea throughout the book and discuss Riggs's probable agenda concerning that idea.

3. Do you think writers who have an agenda for writing should point it out in a preface?

4. How often do you think fiction is written with a clear agenda in mind by the author?

5. Research the life of Riggs and see if/where his life may have influenced his writing.

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