View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Koko typed on the typewriter?

2. How many invitations had Dan and Joy sent out?

3. How does Miss Roop feel about Max Sorrel?

4. What color is the object on the edge of the gravel?

5. What are Joy and Jim to each other?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Riker not know and cannot believe?

2. What serves as a reminder to Jim about his age?

3. How does Joy feel about the river, and why is that?

4. Of what things does Charlotte disapprove?

5. Why does Qwill have to take Koko to the vet?

6. What new job does the managing editor assign Qwilleran?

7. Who else hears the scream, and why do they hear it?

8. Who stops by with a present for the cats? What is it? Why does she want to give it to them?

9. Why is it a good thing that the majority of Joy's newest pottery pieces are locked up? Why can't Joy show them to Qwilleran?

10. What leads to Qwill's purchase in the pet food store? How do the cats react to this?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the endurance of art and why it is important. What specific kinds of art have lasted throughout the ages, from the stone age forward? Explain your answer and cite references.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the idea of a place run specifically for the arts of which any artist could be a part. Would this be a benefit to society? Why or why not? What is the likelihood of such a place actually existing? Why is this?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Qwilleran's choice of profession. Do you think he would make a better detective or a writer? Which is closer to an art form and what leads you to this conclusion?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 880 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample