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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. In Chapter 5, what bird does the narrator see on the window ledge?

2. Where do Mrs. Kinsella and the narrator drag the mattress in Chapter 3?

3. Where does Mr. Kinsella have the narrator run to in Chapter 3?

4. In Gorey, what are hanging in plastic nets?

5. In Chapter 5 when the Kinsellas and narrator come to the house where the wake is being held, how many men are smoking and leaning against a wall?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 3, why does Mr. Kinsella have the narrator run?

2. What clothes does Mrs. Kinsella buy the narrator in Gorey?

3. What does Mrs. Kinsella tell the narrator that a wake is like?

4. At the beginning of Chapter 5, what are the narrator and Mrs. Kinsella doing when Mr. Kinsella comes in from the yard?

5. What does Mrs. Kinsella do when Mr. Kinsella says they should buy the narrator some clothes?

6. What is it like in Gorey?

7. Why does Mr. Kinsella think it is time to buy the narrator some clothes?

8. At the beginning of Chapter 4, how does the narrator describe a typical day?

9. What can the narrator hear sometimes after she is in bed?

10. In Chapter 5, what does Mr. Kinsella tell the narrator to do before they go to town, and what does she think about what he says?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Accumulation is a literary device that allows an author to gather scattered ideas in a literary work and gradually build on information readers need to know. From whose perspective is Foster told? How do chapters build and add information? How does Keegan use accumulation to advance the plot and provide important details to readers?

Essay Topic 2

Things are very different for the narrator at the Kinsellas than at her home. How and why does the narrator have to adapt to life with the Kinsellas?

Essay Topic 3

The narrator wets the bed in Chapter 3. What does the incident reveal about Mrs. Kinsella and the type of person that she is?

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