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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. What does the narrator read before he goes to sleep in Chapter 5?

2. Who is described as the previous housekeeper at the narrator's family's home in Chapter 6?

3. What color bathtub is in the narrator’s house?

4. In Chapter 7, what does Ursula threaten to do if the narrator tries to leave the property?

5. What color is the worm that the narrator pulls out of his foot?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the narrator describe Ursula when she first arrives?

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

4. How does the narrator describe the clearing that he and Lettie enter in their search for the creature in Chapter 4?

5. What does the narrator’s father do when he comes home from work in Chapter 7?

6. What new job has the narrator's mother taken in Chapter 6?

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

8. What does the narrator describe having cut out of his knee with a penknife in Chapter 5? What did he learn?

9. Why does the opal miner give the narrator a cat in Chapter 1?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the narrator's escape from his locked bedroom in Chapter 8. What emotions go through the narrator’s mind when he realizes that Ursula has locked him in? How does the narrator escape? Does he leave because of fear or courage?

Essay Topic 2

Why does the narrator go for a drive in the Prologue? Where is he supposed to be? Why doesn’t he go there? How does his subconscious lead him to his destination?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the narrator's first impressions of Ursula when he meets her. Who does the narrator think that Ursula is? Why? What does he see when he looks at her? What does she do that makes it seem as though she has inhuman powers?

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