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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 sort of animal comes out of the forest?

2. What is ahead of the children on the path?

3. What does Mallory ask the elves?

4. What does Thimbletack's note say?

5. What does Mallory do to Simon?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do they ask the rabbit-monkey creature they see and what does he answer? What does Jared decide about him? What does he say when they ask about Arthur?

2. What does Jared order his siblings to do and how do they accomplish this?

3. What does Simon suggest about Mallory's find and what is her response?

4. What does the unicorn show the children and how do they react to the vision?

5. What does Lorengorm say to them?

6. How does Helen react to Jared and Mallory fighting in Lucinda's room and what happens to Lucinda?

7. What do the children do when they return from the barn?

8. What does Mallory say to Jared when they arrive home and how does he respond?

9. What is Jared's response to the elves ravings and how does Lorengorm answer Jared?

10. How does Mallory feel about the conversation with the rabbit-monkey creature and what does Simon ask it? What is the creature's response to Simon's question?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Oftentimes, a book has more of a character-driven plot rather than action driven, and oftentimes the other way. Some books seem to balance the two. Discuss the following:

1. What do you think it means to say that a plot is character driven? Action driven?

2. How do you think a plot differs if it is character driven versus action driven?

3. Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why?

4. Do you think it is possible to have a plot where action and character development share equal time? Why or why not.

5. What type of plot do you think Lucinda's Secret is? Explain your response.

Essay Topic 2

Whenever reading a science fiction or fantasy novel, one must become familiar with new terminology that explains concepts or technology that is not a part of the "real" world. In the case of Lucinda's Secret, much of the setting is familiar to the reader, though there are new ideas and terms to learn. Discuss the following:

1. Find five terms that are a part of Lucinda's Secret's world that occur in the "real" world but are used differently in Lucinda's Secret's world. Define the words as used in in Lucinda's Secret's world and compare those five words as to how they are currently used in the American English language.

2. There are ways of learning about a new world or time when reading a science fiction or fantasy novel. Discuss the ways you were able to understand the world of Lucinda's Secret. Did you have to look up any words? What does it mean to learn a word through its context? Do you have to do that in Lucinda's Secret? What word(s)?

3. Were there any words you never really understood from Lucinda's Secret? Which ones?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the following:

1. Compare/contrast the Graces' world to that of "real" life. What are the advantages to each world? The disadvantages?

2. In which world would you rather live in if you were human? What about if you were an elf? Explain your response.

3. If you had Thimbletack's abilities how would you use them? Use examples from Lucinda's Secret and your own life to illustrate your answer.

4. If you had an elf's abilities how would you use them? Use examples from Lucinda's Secret and your own life to illustrate your answer.

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