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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 causes the mermaids to abandon the trunk?

2. Who knocks out Peter?

3. Who does Slank want to find on the island?

4. Why do the mollusk people want the Starstuff?

5. Who asked Richard to do something to the cow?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Peter build his new home out of?

2. What causes Stache to be nice to the pirate who says he is afraid when seeing the flying people?

3. How does Slank know so much about the Starstuff?

4. What does Peter see when he finally finds Ted?

5. Why does Stache insist on following the flying crocodile?

6. What happened when Starstuff leaked on a lizard?

7. How do Alf's actions around the boys disprove his ideas about himself?

8. What does Molly choose to do when she sees the orphans with the savages?

9. What made Mr. Grin like human flesh?

10. How can Peter communicate with the mermaid?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What causes Fighting Prawn to be so upset with the British, and how does this viewpoint change for him over the course of the plot?

Essay Topic 2

Friendship is a strong theme throughout the book. Where are some places that this theme appears, and how do the characters touched by it react? How do certain friendships change over the course of the book, and what causes these changes?

Essay Topic 3

Who is Mr. Grin, how does he come to be the way he is, and how is the course of the plot altered by his presence?

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