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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. How many months has it been since Viviane has heard from Jack in the beginning of Chapter 7?
2. What is Jack and Emilienne’s favorite spot that they go to after the movies in Chapter 5?
3. What is the date of the journal entry that concludes Chapter 13?
4. Who visits Viviane and brings gifts for her children when they are two years old, saying to Viviane, “You shouldn’t have to do this alone”?
5. What is Mrs. Cooper’s first name in the novel?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is the character of John Griffith described in Chapter 5? How does John Griffith feel about Emilienne?
2. Where is Jack intending to attend school in Chapter 6? How does Jack feel about his prospects?
3. What does Ava say she wishes and wonders about her mother when she was young in Chapter 4?
4. Where has Viviane begun working in Chapter 8? Why? Whom does the narrator describe Viviane first encountering at her job in the chapter?
5. How does Ava describe her birth in the novel’s Prologue? When and where was Ava born?
6. How does the narrator describe the community’s response to Ava’s unusual birth in Chapter 9? Who names Ava?
7. How does the narrator describe the death of Gabe’s mother in Chapter 7? How old is Gabe at this time?
8. What was known by the community regarding the parentage of Viviane’s children, according to the narrator in Chapter 10?
9. How would you describe the narrative style of The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender?
10. When does Ava say Henry was “freed from our mother’s protective rule on the hill” in Chapter 11? Why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the narrative style of the novel. Is the narrative related from a first, second, or third-person narrator? Is the narrator involved in the action of the story? Is the story told in the present or past tense? What effects does each of these authorial choices have on the reader?
Essay Topic 2
Describe and discuss the characters of the Roux family (with the exception of Emilienne). How old are each of Emilienne’s siblings when her family immigrates to the U.S.? How does the narrator describe the relationships within the Roux family? Is the family close?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss John Griffith’s transformation in Chapter 10. What trigger causes John Griffith to change? How does he change? What does John Griffith say to Emilienne when he visits the bakery in Chapter 10? How does Emilienne respond?
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