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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 Jared's response to Mallory's threats?

2. What does a note say that the children find?

3. What does Simon believe about Jared?

4. Why is there tension among Mallory, Jared and Simon?

5. What does Jared think will help the creature to be nicer?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jared decide to do to calm the boggart and what does he carry into the house? What is his mother's reaction to Jared's load?

2. What do Simon and Mallory think about her situation?

3. How does Jared's mother feel about him going to the attic?

4. What does Jared point out in the kitchen and what happens to his evidence?

5. How does Jared feel about the trunk in the attic and what does he do with the trunk? What does he find?

6. What does Ms. Grace think about Mallory's situation?

7. What does Jared do with the black plastic garbage bag and what does he see inside it?

8. What does Simon speculate to Jared about Mallory's situation and what does Jared say to him? How does Simon react to Jared's suggestion?

9. What does Jared think might be in the wall?

10. What is Jared doing that night that surprises Simon, what is Simon doing and what is Jared thinking about?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Many novels, and perhaps a majority, of novels ends on a happy note. Discuss the following:

1. Why do you think many (most?) people want what they perceive as a happy or good ending to a novel? Explain your opinion. Do you? Why or why not?

2. What are three reasons to read fiction? Discuss each one in light of The Field Guide.

3. Do you think reading solely for entertainment is as good a reason to read as any other? Why or why not? Can any work of fiction or non-fiction, no matter how poorly written, enlighten, teach, stimulate thought? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the following:

1. What do you think are the characteristics of a successful novel?

2. Analyze and discuss The Field Guide based upon the criteria you decide upon in #1, and then judge if The Field Guide is a successful novel.

3. Do you think the fact that The Field Guide is part of a series changes the criteria upon which its success should be judged? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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