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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 Layla want to do for the school play?

2. Who asks Sarah to take Jude along with her friends in Part III?

3. What does Jude say she is thankful for ahead of Thanksgiving?

4. What is one thing Mama cooks when it is time for her to cook dinner?

5. What pastry do Layla's parents let she and Jude eat at the restaurant?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jude say to the rude person at the hospital in response to the person's comment to Mama?

2. What momentous event happens while Jude is waiting for the results of the play tryouts to be posted?

3. Why does Layla think Jude is lucky?

4. What does Sarah tell Jude when Aunt Michelle makes Sarah take Jude sledding with her?

5. What does the person at the hospital say to Mama as she and Jude are leaving that upsets them both?

6. How do Jude and Miles begin to become friends?

7. Why does Jude like Ludlow Avenue so much?

8. Why does Jude choose her monologue from the movie Notting Hill?

9. Why does Jude get so emotional when she goes to the Middle Eastern restaurant and they serve her food for the first time?

10. What does Jude think is the bravest thing a person can do after she learns of Issa's departure from home?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Jude eventually begin to realize is at the root of her cousin Sarah's coldness towards her? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 2

What does the baby Amal represent for Jude and her family? How does Amal's arrival seem to change the dynamic in Uncle Mazin's household? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

What is the result of Uncle Mazin's one-on-one dinner with Jude? What does Jude better begin to understand about her uncle's own feelings about America after her dinner with him? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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