The Fault in Our Tars Text-Based Questions

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green Grade 9 (Incoming) Name: Chapter 1-3 What can you infer about the effects of Hannah’s cancer on she Question that assesses and her family? Use evidence from chapters 1-3 to support your themes and central ideas response. of chapter Question that assesses “Doctor Jim, who agreed that I was veritably swimming in a knowledge of vocabulary paralyzing and totally clinical depression” (Green 4). What is the meaning of the word veritably as used in this context? Questions that assesses What is the metaphor Augustus makes after Hazel yells at him? syntax and structure What is the author’s purpose in using this type of literary device?

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Chapter 4-6 Can one determine if Hazel truly likes to be alone and has a Question that assesses confident sense of identity based on her actions? Explain in themes and central ideas thorough detail using examples from these chapters to support of chapter your response.

Question that assesses Hazel becomes very upset after reading Caroline Mather’s knowledge of vocabulary facebook page and focuses on one particular wall post. She then tries to “keep telling myself to compartmentalize, to be here now at the circular table” (Green 97), but she cannot. What does the word compartmentalize mean? What does this suggest about Hazel’s character as a young teenager with cancer? Questions that assesses What literary technique does the author use when providing the syntax and structure part of chapter 4 with a side story about Holliday Park? a. irony b. flashback c. alliteration d. tone

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Chapter 7-9 Hazel and Gus develop a connection through their love of the Question that assesses novel An Imperial Affliction by an admired author, Peter Van themes and central ideas Houten. Reflect on the importance of developing connections of chapter with those around us. What is the significance of this connection between these two teenagers dealing with cancer? What connections with others in life do you find to be of importance? Question that assesses On page 123 Hazel and Gus put up an ad for her swingset on a knowledge of vocabulary giveaway site. They create an interesting headline in which Gus then says to her, “Do you realize how rare it is to come across a hot girl who creates an adjectival version of the world pedophile?” What does the world pedophile mean and why does Gus find this so intriguing about her? Questions that assesses Hazel explains to the medical students who examine her while syntax and structure she is back in the ICU that she is, “a cancer-fighting machine” (Green 109). What can one infer about her state of mind and maturity (or lack of maturity) about her condition? What literary device is this and what is the significance of Green having Hazel use this wording to describe herself?

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Chapters 10-11 On pages 151-154, Augustus and Hazel discuss the possibility Question that assesses of being forgotten after death. Augustus states that “a lot of themes and central ideas people end of remembering Shakespeare, and no one ends up of chapter remembering the person he wrote Sonnet Fifty-five about” (Green 152). Explain the significance of this concept to two teenagers who are facing death. Use information from this chapter to support your explanation. 1 Question that assesses Hazel mentions that she had always thought of believing in knowledge of vocabulary heaven as “intellectual disengagement” (Green 168.) What does “intellectual disengagement” mean, and what conclusions can we draw from this statement about Hazel’s beliefs about the afterlife? 1 Questions that assesses Hazel reflects that “the weird thing about houses is that they syntax and structure almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives” (Green 139). What literary device is being utilized here and how does it communicate the idea of the passage? Chapter Summary

Chapters 12-13 Question that assesses Reflect on Maslow’s pyramid (Green 212) and what Hazel structure of the text of concludes about its implications for her and other people chapter struggling with illness. What can we infer about the author’s purpose in introducing this concept? Question that assesses Peter Van Houten turns his head “metronomically” from knowledge of vocabulary Augustus to Hazel (Green 182). What does this mean? What can we infer about Van Houten’s stature and response to meeting the kids through Green’s use of this word?

Questions that assesses How does the way John Green orders the events of chapter 12 syntax and structure and manipulates time during that chapter create a literary effect? Chapter Summary Chapters 14-17 Hazel states that “ignorance is bliss” (Green 220). Is ignorance Question that assesses “bliss” for Hazel? Considering the information we gain in chapter themes and central ideas 13, do you agree with Hazel that, for her, ignorance was bliss? of chapter Connect this to your own life; have you ever felt that it would be better not to know something? Use information from the text to support your response. Question that assesses Hazel and Augustus discuss the concept of “nostalgia” on page knowledge of vocabulary 236 (chapter 16). What is “nostalgia”? What can we infer about the seriousness of Gus’ condition from this conversation?

Questions that assesses Hazel states that “some infinities are bigger than other infinities” syntax and structure (Green 233). How does the use of the word “infinities” here influence the mood, tone, and meaning of this chapter? Chapter Summary

Chapters 18-20 Question that assesses At the beginning of chapter 18, Gus calls Hazels in a panic structure of the text of completely depending on her and trusting her. What does this chapter tell you about their relationship? Question that assesses “Maybe he’d been hallucinating, or his martyrdom fantasies had knowledge of vocabulary gotten the better of him” (243). Why is the underlined word appropriate when describing Gus? Questions that assesses The word “ghoulishly” is used at the bottom of page 256. What syntax and structure mood does this word convey to readers, and why is it appropriate for the book as a whole?

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Chapters 21-23 Gus passes away at the beginning of chapter 21. Hazel’s Question that assesses parents find out and fall into one another with grief. What does themes and central ideas the indicate about the stress and anxiety her parents feel when a of chapter child is sick? Are you able to sympathize with them as you are for Hazel? Use words from the text that support your thinking.

Question that assesses “ ‘You’ve reached the voice mail of Augustus Waters,’ “ he said, knowledge of vocabulary the clarion I’d fallen for” (263). Based on what you’ve learned of Gus throughout the book, what does “clarion” mean? Questions that assesses Green uses the words, “haunted and haunter” on page 273. syntax and structure What is Green’s purpose for uses those words specifically?

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Chapters 24 and 25 As stated earlier, parents suffer along with the children that are Question that assesses sick. Provide textual evidence to support the idea that Van themes and central ideas Houten did as well. of chapter

Question that assesses What does the word “voracious” mean as used on page 305? knowledge of vocabulary Questions that assesses What effect does it have on you as reader that Green ends the syntax and structure book with the letter that Gus wrote to Van Houten?

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