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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes the family to stop talking about the paw?
(a) The storm rages.
(b) Dinner is served.
(c) Morris changes the subject.
(d) Chess is played.

2. What is the name of the White's house?
(a) Villa Larkshire.
(b) Villa Lake Ridge.
(c) Lakesnam Villa.
(d) Lake Side Villa.

3. What is the monkey paw meant to show?
(a) Generosity rules.
(b) Men are fickle.
(c) Fate rules the world.
(d) The devil is real.

4. How many times did Morris use the monkey paw?
(a) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

5. What color is Morris's face?
(a) Yellow.
(b) White.
(c) Brown.
(d) Red.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Morris say he is not to be blamed for when he leaves?

2. What does White do to distract the person he is playing a game with?

3. How was the monkey paw preserved?

4. Who is Mr. White playing a game with at the beginning of the book?

5. How many men have used the monkey paw?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Morris say the Monkey Paw got its powers?

2. How does the author describe Mrs. White when she has her idea for the second wish?

3. What does White choose as his first wish?

4. What does Mrs. White understand before her husband?

5. How do the Whites know Morris?

6. What ends the comfort Mrs. White feels when she learns about her son's injury?

7. What does Mr. White understand before his wife?

8. What does Morris's tale of the monkey paw remind White of?

9. What does Mrs. White want the second wish to be?

10. How does Mr. White act the morning after the wish?

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