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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 served for dinner in Chapter 6?

2. In Chapter 7, what colors is Ursula wearing?

3. What presents does the narrator receive for his seventh birthday?

4. Where is the opal miner said to be from?

5. In Chapter 4, what is the third color Lettie wants to find?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does the narrator like to read on nice spring days?

2. Who steals the narrator’s father’s car in Chapter 2? Why?

3. What does the narrator describe having cut out of his knee with a penknife in Chapter 5? What did he learn?

4. How does the narrator describe Ursula when she first arrives?

5. What does the narrator’s father do in Chapter 7 after the narrator refuses to eat or apologize to Ursula?

6. Describe the narrator's dream in Chapter 3. What does the narrator discover when he wakes?

7. Why does the opal miner give the narrator a cat in Chapter 1?

8. Why does the narrator say that his father has never hit him?

9. What new job has the narrator's mother taken in Chapter 6?

10. Where did the narrator live growing up? At what point did his family move?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss the Hempstock women in The Ocean at the End of the Lane. What do the Hempstock women do that shows they are not ordinary people? How old do the Hempstock women seem to be? What supernatural abilities do the women demonstrate?

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 4, Lettie takes the narrator along when she goes to bind the creature that is causing problems. Why does Lettie take the narrator with her? What instructions does she give the narrator? Why does the narrator disobey? Is Lettie able to bind the creature?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the theme of memory in The Ocean at the End of the Lane. How have the narrator's memories led him to the Hempstock farm? How do the narrator's memories change in the course of the narrative?

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