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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. How does she tell the cat her story at the end of Chapter 8?
(a) With song.
(b) In whispers.
(c) With dance.
(d) With drawings.

2. Where is Will stuck when Alyce finds him in Chapter 8?
(a) Underneath the bridge.
(b) In the gully.
(c) Under a large log.
(d) In a shack.

3. What does the protagonist not do while she sleeps?
(a) Snores.
(b) Dreams.
(c) Drools.
(d) Grinds her teeth.

4. Why does Alyce give Jane all of the payments she receives?
(a) Alyce is terrified of Jane.
(b) Alyce does not have anything to spend the payments on.
(c) Alyce does not trust herself with money as she loves to shop.
(d) Alyce believes that she would not have earned them without having learned at Jane's side.

5. Why does Beetle become fearful of the miller's wife in Chapter 4?
(a) The miller's wife begins shouting and throwing things.
(b) The miller's wife becomes very drunk.
(c) The miller's wife laughs loudly at everyone who comes near.
(d) The miller's wife cries whenever her husband enters the room.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Will's friends do when he falls in the water in Chapter 6?

2. What does Gilbert Gray-Head teach Alyce in Chapter 7?

3. Who stops the boys in the village from taunting the protagonist in Chapter 1?

4. What does Beetle watch the cat do?

5. Where does Beetle often sit while a birth is taking place?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the villagers comment on when they pass Alyce and the cat in Chapter 6?

2. Why doesn't Brat dream while she sleeps?

3. In Chapter 7, what do the 'Devil's footprints' lead the villagers to on Old North Road?

4. What does Alyce offer the cat in Chapter 6?

5. What accident does Jane have in Chapter 5? What does she make Beetle do as a result?

6. How is the miller punished for stealing from his customers in Chapter 7?

7. What do the villagers dislike about Jane?

8. After helping Will deliver the calves, what changes for Alyce in Chapter 8?

9. In Chapter 8, What does Will instruct Alyce to do to help the cow deliver? Why is Will especially pleased when the delivery is over?

10. What does Beetle call Jane and why?

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