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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. The animal Jojo mistakenly believes to be headless has what color body?
2. Stella is the only student in the school who has what trait?
3. Whose skin is likened to the color of rum?
4. What beverage does Mama offer to Spoon Man on the morning of his departure?
5. What food does Mama offer to Spoon Man on the morning of his departure?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Stella's real name and for what reason does Stella adore her nickname?
2. What realization does Stella make about Dr. Packard and what does she do about her realization?
3. What role does religion play within Stella's community?
4. How does the cross outside of New Hope Church echo the novel's depiction of beauty within imperfection?
5. What does Mama mean when she calls Stella "a gemstone hiding inside a rock" (100)?
6. What sight alerts Stella to the identity of the one of the Klansmen at the rally?
7. What plan does Pastor Patton tell the congregation he will undertake the following morning?
8. What aspect of the Klan's reemergence most alarms Papa and why?
9. What racial inequalities are depicted within the voter registration process in Spindale?
10. Why are Jojo and Stella outside in the middle of the night in the novel's opening scene?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What message does Draper send within the pages of Stella by Starlight concerning the link between brutality and oppression?
Essay Topic 2
Look carefully at the passages of Stella by Starlight that describe the close relationship between Stella’s sense of hope and her goal of becoming a journalist. What is Draper’s purpose for portraying the nature of this connection?
Essay Topic 3
How do the themes of deception and secrecy function within Stella by Starlight and what is Draper’s message regarding these themes?
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