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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 Ned avoid approaching?

2. To whom does Ned apologize?

3. What does the Wallis family receive in the mail?

4. What does Ned admit to Mr. Scully on another trip to see the man?

5. Why doesn't Ned visit his mother one day?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mama tell Ned about something she did when Ned was three?

2. What does Ned learn from Mama about Mrs. Scallop and Mr. Scully?

3. What does Mr. Scully say to Ned about the one-eyed cat?

4. What changes take place for the Kimball family?

5. Who does Ned meet at Mr. Scully's house one day after Mr. Scully is gone and what does she tell him?

6. About what does Ned open up and talk to his mama?

7. With whom does Ned get into a fight and why?

8. After he recovers from his illness, where does Ned often go and what does he do there?

9. How does the fight end?

10. Where is Mr. Scully taken and what is probably wrong with him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

"One-Eyed Cat" belongs to the young teen genre. Discuss the following:

1. Define the literary term "genre" and give several examples of three other genres in addition to fantasy.

2. Discuss two reasons why it might be useful to label a text by genre.

3. Discuss two reasons why it might be disadvantageous to label a text by genre.

4. Discuss what your favorite genre is; give several examples and explain what you enjoy about books in that genre.

Essay Topic 2

Many events that happen later in "One-Eyed Cat" are foreshadowed by previous events and/or signs in an earlier section of the book. Discuss the following:

1. Define the literary term "foreshadow."

2. Why would an author use foreshadowing? Do you think it adds or detracts from your experience as a reader? Explain.

3. Trace and analyze three instances of foreshadowing in the book. Match up what is mentioned earlier and what it foreshadows. Did you guess that each instance of foreshadowing was a "heads up" of something to come? Why or why not.

Essay Topic 3

Most protagonists are a mixture of admirable traits and character flaws, and Ned and other characters are no exceptions. Discuss the following:

1. Trace and analyze situations when Ned demonstrates his admirable qualities. Give specific examples to illustrate your analysis. Compare those to situations where he demonstrates his less-than-admirable traits.

2. Trace and analyze situations when two other minor protagonists demonstrate his/her admirable qualities. Give specific examples to illustrate your analysis. Compare those to situations where s/he demonstrates her less-than-admirable traits.

3. Often the antagonist is a mixture of positive and negative traits (if they are human) or positive and negative aspects if the protagonist is a thing, event, animal, etc... Trace and analyze situations when an antagonist demonstrates positive aspects. Give specific examples to illustrate your analysis. Compare those to situations where the antagonist demonstrates less-than-admirable aspects.

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