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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the opal miner said to be from?
(a) New Zealand.
(b) South Africa.
(c) Australia.
(d) United States.

2. What color dress is Lettie wearing in Chapter 3?
(a) Pink.
(b) Green.
(c) Blue.
(d) White.

3. In Chapter 7, from where does the narrator watch as his father shows Ursula around the gardens?
(a) From his laboratory.
(b) From under the back porch.
(c) From the hedgerow.
(d) From the beech tree.

4. In the bottle of coins the gardener finds in the garden, what is the latest date on the coins?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1928.

5. What is the name of the Hempstocks' cow?
(a) Bessie.
(b) Bridget.
(c) Bossy.
(d) Molly.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 7, what does Ursula make for dinner?

2. What does the narrator read at the beginning of Chapter 7?

3. In the Prologue, how long ago had the new house been sold?

4. What types of trees line the side of the meadow at the Hempstock farm?

5. When the Hempstocks came from the old country and brought the farm, what did Gran call the things that were brought with it?

Short Essay Questions

1. What items lead Lettie to the creature in Chapter 4?

2. Where does the narrator like to read on nice spring days?

3. Who are Mr. and Mrs. Wollery? What are their positions in the narrator's household?

4. How does Lettie find the way to the creature to bind it in Chapter 4?

5. Where did the narrator live growing up? At what point did his family move?

6. From whom does the narrator receive a letter in Chapter 3? What is revealed in the letter?

7. How does the narrator get rid of the worm after removing it from his foot?

8. What does the narrator find when he examines his foot in Chapter 5?

9. How does the narrator describe his family's last housekeeper in Chapter 6?

10. Who steals the narrator’s father’s car in Chapter 2? Why?

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