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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. Where did Hal want to go to university?

2. What time does Matthew return to the bus stop to meet Tomas in Chapter 20?

3. What is Matthew's top choice for university?

4. What flowers does Rufus have in his room in Chapter 26?

5. Where is the rug from that is in front of the living-room fire?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Duncan and Zoe's hands compare?

2. What does Duncan say about Gordon, Lily's former human, at the end of Chapter 19?

3. What does Duncan learn in Chapter 32?

4. Who is the American that Zoe keeps searching out?

5. What does Matthew do and feel when he sees Rachel in Chapter 28?

6. What preparations has Tomas made for canvassing the neighborhood for Karel's assailant?

7. How do people receive Matthew when he checks out houses for Karel's assailant?

8. In Chapter 18, why does Tomas want to search in the area near the hospital for the assailant?

9. Why does Gordon come to the Langs' in Chapter 29, and what does he do?

10. What did Rufus win at a carnival when he was nine?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Zoe wants to make a pact to be truthful for a week. Why does Zoe suggest making a pact to tell no lies for a week? How difficult is it to be honest? What do Zoe and her siblings learn about lying and honesty through the pact?

Essay Topic 2

Betsy is Duncan’s adoptive mother. What type of relationship do Duncan and Betsy have? How does finding his birth mother affect the relationship between Duncan and Betsy?

Essay Topic 3

An inciting incident is an event in literature that begins the action of a story, and presents a question that the protagonists and readers want an answer to. What is the inciting incident in The Boy in the Field? Why is that the inciting incident?

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