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Mark Dunn

Ella Minnow Pea

Mark DunnFiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

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1. Which of the following best describes the way Ella’s family feels about the decision to ban letters?

A) Reverent and accepting

B) Mournful and accepting

C) Mournful and rebellious

D) Vengeful and rebellious

2. Amos receives a letter from an American buyer, requesting he make more clay “vessels” but warning Amos that he will only pay in US currency. This is an example of what literary device?

A) Allegory

B) Foreshadowing

C) Colloquialism

D) Dramatic irony

3. Which of the following is the strongest example of the theme the Illusion of Power within the novel?

A) The Council seizing property and land

B) The Council scanning letters for banned words

C) Georgeanne Townsend using her social standing to get Tassie’s mother in trouble at work

D) The police interrogating Gwenette so severely that she commits her third offense

4. Early in the novel, Tassie compares the island’s residents to geese but notes that they would not make “even so much as a peep of dissatisfaction” when abused by their leaders. (Chapter 1) What is prophetic about this comparison?

A) The inhabitants of the island all move closer to one another until they become a proverbial “flock.”

B) The inhabitants of the island use birds to deliver letters without detection.

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