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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. Chapter Four begins with which of the following?

2. With what mark does Answelica leave Edik?

3. Book the First ends with which of the following?

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

5. As which of the following does Jack note Bibspeak would return from the afterlife?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What reason does Jack give for not wanting to know a secret in Chapter Fifteen?

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

4. At the beginning of Chapter Fourteen, what sobriquets does Bibspeak apply to Jack?

5. At the end of Chapter Thirteen, how long does Bibspeak make Jack repeat his name?

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

7. In Chapter Six, what does Edik note wanting his letters to illuminate?

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

9. What job does Jack have in his village, and why?

10. In Chapter Eight, what does Beatryce first discuss with *Answelica*?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Cannoc remarks that “No one comes looking for a king. For as soon as a king disappears, those who would replace him start to scheme and calculate about how to take the crown for themselves” (109). To what extent do the novel and experience bear out his remark? How do the novel and experience do so?

Essay Topic 2

The novel orients itself around a prophetic text: the Chronicles of Sorrowing. What significance inheres in the name of that text? How does the novel support the idea of that significance?

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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