1. What other techniques besides coating the hurkle kitten with powder might Stott have employed to reveal the invisible animal?

2. Why would the hurkle think the children were imprisoned?

3. What, if anything, does "He had saved the Earth from battle, murder, and bloodshed, forever, but he did not know that" mean? Does it have something to do with hurkles driving humans off of the earth?

4. What could people have done to stop the itching caused by the purr of hurkles?

5. How is the earth different from Lirht?

6. Why is the earth, from the hurkle kitten's perspective, a place where "No colors were right; everything seemed half-lit, out-of-focus"?

7. Why is the hurkle kitten not angry about being covered with DDT, which is poisonous?

8. What would make a hurkle a good pet? What does it say about the gwik that they prize hurkles as pets?

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