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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 the Wallis family receive in the mail?

2. What does Mr. Scully think about the one-eyed cat?

3. How does Hilary intend to get to his next destination?

4. What does Ned's mother remind Ned to do?

5. What does Ned know about Mr. Scully and the man's house?

Short Essay Questions

1. What changes take place for the Kimball family?

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

3. Why does Ned stop at Mr. Scully's house and what does he find?

4. What does Ned bring down from the attic and what is inside it?

5. Where does Ned go one moonlit night and who follows him?

6. What does Ned do for Janet that shows his kind nature?

7. What does Ned's mama "confess" to Ned?

8. What are Uncle Hilary's newest plans as outlined in a letter the Willis family receives?

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

10. What will Mr. Willis start doing for Mr. Scully and why?

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

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.

Essay Topic 3

Paula Fox chooses to write the novel as a third person, impersonal narrator. Discuss the following:

1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of this novel being written in the third person, omniscient narration?

2. Do you think the novel would be more effective in a different point of view? Which one if so? If not why do you think the impersonal narrator works the best?

3. When do you think an author is most likely to use the first person point of view? Second person? Third person omniscient? Third person limited?

4. Do you think the narrator in "One-Eyed Cat" is reliable, i.e., do you believe the narrator is completely unbiased? Explain your response.

5. What is your favorite point of view to read? Or do you have a favorite.

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