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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. Before heading to the ball, what do Iris and Clara agree about Caspar?
2. What does Iris wonder about the night her family fled without their father?
3. What advice does the narrator wish had been given to Clara?
4. What signal does Marie de Medici give to the prince to tell him he should move on to other ladies while meeting everyone?
5. What changes about Clara's dress after the ball?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is Iris surprised to learn that many of the guests at the ball are still talking about her, even after the prince and Clara retire to the private room?
2. During their dance at the ball, what does Iris worry about with regard to Caspar?
3. What causes the prince to be initially interested in Iris?
4. As the Epilogue concludes, what kind of painting does Ruth say should be painted of Clara's children?
5. What does Margarethe's decreasing vision symbolize?
6. Who is Caspar referring to when he initially tells Iris that she hopes she will not marry "the wrong man"?
7. What memory does Ruth say burdened Iris her entire life?
8. What reason does Ruth give for why she often appears inconsequential and stupid in the retelling of the story?
9. What happens in the dream Iris has the night of the ball?
10. Why is Margarethe in such shock when Ruth speaks the word "Ashgirl" when referring to Clara?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Choose three passages from Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister that you consider to be the three most important. Analyze each passage for tone, diction, and any other literary devices that Maguire might use within them, such as foreshadowing or symbolism. What makes each scene one of the most important? How does Maguire convey the high level of importance of each passage? Which literary devices does Maguire use to structure and create each passage, and how would each scene be different without the use of one of those devices?
Essay Topic 2
Complete a character analysis of the Queen of the Hairy-Chinned Gypsies. What kind of character is she? How does her character change throughout the novel (or does it)? What role does she play in the text? What is the reader supposed to think of her? Does the reader's opinion of her change as the story progresses? Is she a "good" character, a "bad" character, or both? What literary tools does Maguire use to develop her character?
Essay Topic 3
While a seemingly small item at the beginning of the text, tulips become critically important by the end of the novel. Discuss what tulips symbolize in the text and how their symbolism changes as the story progresses.
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