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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. In Chapter 10, how does the narrator carry his pajamas and toothbrush home?
(a) In a plastic sack.
(b) In a box.
(c) In a brown paper bag.
(d) In a shopping bag.

2. How many of the creatures that devour Ursula land on the grass?
(a) 20.
(b) They can’t be counted.
(c) 100.
(d) 50.

3. How many times does the narrator say he had seen grownups cry in Chapter 11?
(a) Three.
(b) Once.
(c) None.
(d) Twice.

4. In Chapter 10, what is the first item that Lettie sets down in the narrator’s yard?
(a) A stuffed animal.
(b) A toy giraffe.
(c) A marble.
(d) A doll.

5. Who is the first person that the narrator sees when he is standing in the circle in Chapter 12?
(a) Ursula.
(b) A neighbor.
(c) His grandfather.
(d) The opal miner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of animal do the hunger birds grab in Chapter 14?

2. What does Lettie look like in the ocean?

3. Whom does the narrator think of when he is loaned a nightgown from the Hempstocks in Chapter 9?

4. What does the narrator call the things that devour Ursula?

5. What color boots does Ginnie Hempstock wear at the end of Chapter 13?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator have for breakfast at the Hempstock home in Chapter 10?

2. What comes out at dusk when the narrator is in the fairy ring?

3. What does Lettie collect in an old shopping bag to take to the narrator’s house in Chapter 10?

4. What suggestions are made for dealing with the narrator's parents before they arrive at the Hempstocks' home in Chapter 9?

5. Why does the narrator leave the lane and cut across the fields in Chapter 8?

6. In Chapter 10, what does the narrator see outside the window when he wakes in the night?

7. Why does Ursula say when she is sent to talk to the narrator in Chapter 12?

8. What is the purpose of the hole that Ursula left inside the narrator?

9. Where does Ginnie take Lettie after she's been attacked by the hunger birds in Chapter 14?

10. Why does Lettie say the narrator cannot stay in the ocean forever in Chapter 13?

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