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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. What color cat does Mrs. Kinsella have in her kitchen in Chapter 1?
(a) Calico.
(b) Orange and white.
(c) Black and white.
(d) Tortoiseshell.

2. What village do the narrator and her father drive through in Chapter 1?
(a) Shillelagh.
(b) New Ross.
(c) Gorey.
(d) Enniscorthy.

3. What does the narrator tell Mrs. Kinsella is the work her mother is waiting to have done in Chapter 1?
(a) Corn harvesting.
(b) Straw cutting.
(c) Hay cutting.
(d) Wheat cutting.

4. In Chapter 1, what type of flowers are in a glass in Mrs. Kinsella's kitchen?
(a) Lilies.
(b) Flax flowers.
(c) Anemones.
(d) Ox-eyed daisies.

5. In Chapter 2, what color are the butterflies the narrator sees as she walks through the fields with Mrs. Kinsella?
(a) Orange.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Blue.
(d) White.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator imagine on the drive to the Kinsella's that Mrs. Kinsella will fix her for breakfast?

2. What line the hedge of the lane that leads to the Kinsella's house?

3. What type of dog do the Kinsellas have?

4. What is the first thing that Mrs. Kinsella wants the narrator to do after her father leaves?

5. How many measures of water does the narrator drink in Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. What lie does Dan tell the Kinsellas about the hay when he and Mr. Kinsellas come into the kitchen?

2. In Chapter 2, what does Mrs. Kinsella say when the narrator asks if there is a secret connected to going to the well?

3. How does Mrs. Kinsella help the narrator with her bath in Chapter 2?

4. What familiar places do the narrator and her father pass on their drive in Chapter 1?

5. How does the narrator describe Mrs. Kinsella the first time she sees her?

6. How does the narrator get upstairs and what does she see?

7. At the well, what can the narrator hear in Chapter 2?

8. In Chapter 2, how does the narrator get water from the well?

9. What does the narrator see as she and Mrs. Kinsella walk through the fields in Chapter 2?

10. In Chapter 1, where is the narrator riding in the car, and what does she do and see?

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