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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. With which of the following does the novel’s epigraph begin?

2. Which of the following does Edik pack for Beatryce’s departure with Jack?

3. In Chapter Ten, which of the following does Edik draw?

4. What are the first words Bibspeak says to Jack?

5. Chapter Five begins with which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Beatryce love Edik’s roving eye?

2. What does Beatryce think about as she prepares to take the soldier’s testimony in Jack’s village?

3. In Chapter Fifteen, what reasons does the soldier give for wishing to be a bag of vegetables?

4. Why do the monks purpose to send Beatryce on the errand to Jack’s village?

5. In Chapter Four, how does Edik initially assess the condition of the child who had been curled up next to Answelica?

6. What reasons do the monks note for keeping Answelica alive?

7. What do the king and the counselor discuss in their interlude in Chapter Six?

8. In Chapter Five, how does Beatryce describe the seahorse?

9. How long does Chapter Thirteen note that Bibspeak had been in the world?

10. How does Edik describe the child’s crying in Chapter Three?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Edik muses that “Again and again, the world insisted upon betrayals, goodbyes” (63). To what extent do the novel and experience bear out his musing? How do the novel and experience do so?

Essay Topic 2

Typically, an epigraph is expected to speak to or set the tone for the work it introduces. Does the epigraph of The Beatryce Prophecy do so for the present novel? How or how not?

Essay Topic 3

Much is made of the blueness of the sky. How does DiCamillo present the color, how does that align with and deviate from typical associations with the color, what effect does that alignment / deviation have, and how is the effect achieved?

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