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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 is the result of the dangerous bedrooms?

2. What kind of books does Jared see in the library?

3. What does Mrs. Grace think Jared and Mallory are doing in the kitchen?

4. What does Mrs. Grace tell Mallory to do?

5. What does Jared think could be in the heating ducts since it is an old house?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mallory do to the wall in the kitchen and what does she see?

2. What does their mother make Mallory do with the dumbwaiter and how can Jared see where he is?

3. What is the painting Jared sees in the little room on the second floor?

4. What does the note at the beginning of the book say, and what does the book store clerk give the authors? What is the authors' response?

5. What is the additional worry about the Graces' new home?

6. What does Mallory tell Simon and Jared about their Aunt Lucinda?

7. How does Jared get back downstairs?

8. What does Jared hear in his new home and what does he assume?

9. How is Jared feeling when he comes back downstairs, what does Mallory tell him and how does their mother hear them? What does their mother tell the children?

10. What does Jared see when he gets out of the dumbwaiter?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Characters are an important part of what makes The Field Guide interesting. Discuss the following "good" characters:

1. Thoroughly discuss and analyze Jared. What are his strengths? His weaknesses? How does he contribute to the plot? Is he a sympathetic character? Is he always likable? Never likable? Use specific examples to illustrate your ideas.

2. Thoroughly discuss and analyze Simon. What are his strengths? His weaknesses? How does he contribute to the plot? Is he a sympathetic character? Is he always likable? Never likable? Use specific examples to illustrate your ideas.

3. Thoroughly discuss and analyze Mallory. What are her strengths? Her weaknesses? How does she contribute to the plot? Is she a sympathetic character? Is she always likable? Never likable? Use specific examples to illustrate your ideas.

4. Thoroughly discuss and analyze Lucinda. What are her strengths? Her weaknesses? How does she contribute to the plot? Is she a sympathetic character? Is she always likable? Never likable? Use specific examples to illustrate your ideas.

Essay Topic 2

Whenever reading a science fiction or fantasy novel, one must become familiar with new terminology that explains concepts or technology that is not a part of the "real" world. In the case of The Field Guide, much of the setting is familiar to the reader, though there are new ideas and terms to learn. Discuss the following:

1. Find five terms that are a part of The Field Guide's world that occur in the "real" world but are used differently in The Field Guide's world. Define the words as used in in The Field Guide's world and compare those five words as to how they are currently used in the American English language.

2. There are ways of learning about a new world or time when reading a science fiction or fantasy novel. Discuss the ways you were able to understand the world of The Field Guide. Did you have to look up any words? What does it mean to learn a word through its context? Do you have to do that in The Field Guide? What word(s)?

3. Were there any words you never really understood from The Field Guide? Which ones?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the following:

1. Compare/contrast the Graces' world to that of "real" life. What are the advantages to each world? The disadvantages?

2. In which world would you rather live in if you were human? What about if you were an boggart? Explain your response.

3. If you had an Thimbletack's abilities how would you use them? Use examples from The Field Guide and your own life to illustrate your answer.

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