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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 does Mallory ask the elves?

2. What is Jared's response to the elves request?

3. What do the elves say they will do until they get the Field Guide?

4. What is a phooka?

5. What color of hair does the brown-skinned creature have?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the elves say about humans and the field guide when they get angry?

2. What is Mallory's question about the bargain and what does Jared say to them?

3. What does Mallory ask Simon about what he brings on the walk and what is his response?

4. Who is the first of the three beings to speak to the children and what does she say?

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

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

7. What begins to make the children nervous and what happens as they reach a meadow?

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

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

10. What do the three beings who come through the trees look like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mallory is having trouble coping with the realization that their home and the family's safety is unpredictable and precarious. The uncertainty of life alarms her.

1. Why do you think Mallory is alarmed at the uncertainty of life? Use examples from Lucinda's Secret and your own life to support your answer.

2. Have you ever felt that life was scary because it was uncertain? Why or why not? Use examples from your own life to support your answer.

3. What are some of the things you think are absolutely certain about life and what are some that you think are completely uncertain?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the following:

1. What do you think are the characteristics of a successful novel?

2. Analyze and discuss Lucinda's Secret based upon the criteria you decide upon in #1 and judge if Lucinda's Secret is a successful novel.

3. Do you think the fact that Lucinda's Secret is part of a series changes the criteria upon which its success should be judged? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

Before they get out of the car, Jared wonders if anyone every visits Aunt Lucinda and speculates that they are the first visitors in a long time. Their Mom gets instantly angry, which seems slightly defensive on her part as if she feels guilty about not visiting and feels badly about how the family is treating Lucinda. Mallory asks if Grandma visits, which she does but only infrequently. At one point they were so close but she does not know how to deal with Lucinda's condition.

1. Do you think Helen Grace is angry because she feels guilty? Why or why not? Use examples from Lucinda's Secret and your own life to support your answer.

2. Do you think Lucinda should be in the asylum? Why or why not? Use examples from Lucinda's Secret and your own life to support your answer.

3. What do you think are some better ways than anger to deal with guilt? Use examples from your own life to support your answer.

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