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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 "And Now We are Twelve," what kind of a crime is Bond charged with?
2. In "The Overcoat," what does the narrator find when he tries to go to Julie's house to get his coat back?
3. Which of these foods does the reader not see a bear come into the valley to eat in "Those Three Bears"?
4. In "The Overcoat," what does the narrator find odd about Julie's appearance?
5. In "Wild Fruit," what month of the year is it when Vijay sees the boy with the sweets?
Short Essay Questions
1. In "Wild Fruit," why is Vijay so hungry?
2. In "When the Trees Walked," what changes in the family's life are caused by World War Two?
3. In "Pret in the House," what happens with the ghost at the end of the story, and how does the reader know this?
4. In "The Coral Tree," why is the narrator leaving his grandfather's house?
5. In "A Traveller's Tale," what does the narrator expect to see in Gopalpur, and what is the reality?
6. In "And Now We are Twelve," why does the family decide that it is time to move away from Maplewood?
7. In "When the Trees Walked," in what sense do the trees "walk"?
8. In "The Overcoat," what does the narrator discover when he talks to Mrs. Taylor?
9. In "The Thief's Story," where does Hari meet Romi, and why does he choose Romi to approach for work?
10. In "Those Three Bears," what causes the young bear to fall from the tree?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay that analyzes the use of the tiger as a symbol in "Tiger My Friend." Be sure to support your claims with textual evidence.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay about the role of family relationships in the collection Great Stories for Children. Make an overall claim about the way family relationships function in the stories and then support your claim with evidence from at least five of the stories.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that analyzes the metaphor of "walking" trees in "When the Trees Walked." Explain the context of the metaphor in the story, and then analyze both its meaning and how it contributes to the overall theme.
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