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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 is the name of the ass in Chapter 4?

2. What type of shoes does Mrs. Kinsella buy the narrator?

3. When the narrator walks with the Kinsellas in Chapter 5, what dog comes barking outside a cottage?

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

5. In Chapter 5, what do Mrs. Kinsella and the narrator buy at the butcher's?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What conversation do the narrator and Mrs. Kinsella have about the dirt in her ears in Chapter 3?

3. What does Mr. Kinsella do when he takes a break in Chapter 3?

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

5. What does the narrator buy at the sweet shop?

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

7. One evening after the narrator is in bed, what happens when it is noisy in Chapter 4, and Mrs. Kinsella brings the narrator downstairs?

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

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

10. What does Mrs. Kinsella fix for breakfast in Chapter 3?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The narrator comes from a poor family. How would you describe the narrator’s socioeconomic status? How does poverty affect her life?

Essay Topic 2

The narrator makes observations about her father. What observations does the narrator make about her father? What type of person does he seem to be?

Essay Topic 3

The narrator and Mrs. Kinsella have a conversation about secrets. Why is it important to Mrs. Kinsella that there be no secrets at her home? What experiences has the narrator had that help her understand the connection Mrs. Kinsella makes between secrets and shame?

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