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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 is the mermaid doing when Wendy first sees her?
(a) Sleeping
(b) Swimming
(c) Singing
(d) Combing her hair

2. What sound does Peter Pan make each time a pirate enters the captain's cabin?
(a) A scream
(b) A war whoop
(c) A crowing
(d) A laugh

3. What does Peter Pan say would be a very big adventure?
(a) Flying on the tail of a kite
(b) Sailing in a bird's nest
(c) Dying
(d) Fighting a crocodile

4. Where are Wendy and the boys taken after the pirates capture them?
(a) To a fishing hut
(b) To Marooner's Rock
(c) To Captain Hook's ship
(d) To the Indian village

5. What rock are Wendy and Peter Pan sitting on right after seeing the mermaid?
(a) Captain Hook's Rock
(b) Marooner's Rock
(c) Moon Rock
(d) Mariner's Rock

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens before Wendy and the boys can leave Neverland?

2. What does Peter Pan say he discovered upon returning to his own home after being in Neverland?

3. What task does Wendy say she is going to accomplish following their meal?

4. What does Peter Pan do with the eggs he removes from a bird's nest?

5. What does Peter Pan do to prepare for the upcoming battle with the pirates?

Short Essay Questions

1. What action does Peter Pan take upon learning that Wendy and the boys have been kidnapped?

2. What does Smee say about mothers? What is Wendy's reaction? Why does Wendy respond in this manner?

3. What magical creature does Peter Pan attempt to catch for Wendy? What does he say about capturing this creature? Why do you believe he offers that information?

4. What does Hook plan to do with the children? What does he say about other children at this time of night?

5. What is the final conversation shared by Wendy and Peter Pan before Wendy is captured by the pirates? What is Wendy searching for?

6. What noise does Peter Pan make to confuse Captain Hook just before he rescues the children? What is Captain Hook's reaction to the sound? What are the boys' reaction?

7. What is John's reaction to Peter's arrival with the imaginary tigers he captured? What conflict could be brewing between John and Peter and why?

8. How does Captain Hook react when he realizes that he cannot beat Peter Pan at a sword fight?

9. How do Peter Pan and Wendy escape the rising tide? What significance can be placed on their manner of escape? Why do they not simply fly?

10. Describe the lengths to which Wendy takes her role as mother to the lost boys.

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