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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. When the Hempstocks came from the old country and brought the farm, what did Gran call the things that were brought with it?
2. Where does the narrator meet Lettie in Chapter 3?
3. In Chapter 2, how many weeks of vacation from school does the narrator get?
4. In Chapter 3, how much does the narrator win in the Premium Bonds?
5. What is Lettie’s ocean implied to actually be?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the narrator's dream in Chapter 3. What does the narrator discover when he wakes?
2. Who steals the narrator’s father’s car in Chapter 2? Why?
3. What new job has the narrator's mother taken in Chapter 6?
4. How does the narrator describe his seventh birthday party in Chapter 1?
5. How does Lettie find the way to the creature to bind it in Chapter 4?
6. What does the narrator find when he examines his foot in Chapter 5?
7. What does Mr. Wollery find in the garden in Chapter 3?
8. Where did the narrator live growing up? At what point did his family move?
9. What does the narrator’s father do in Chapter 7 after the narrator refuses to eat or apologize to Ursula?
10. What items lead Lettie to the creature in Chapter 4?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In Chapter 10, Lettie gathers a mishmash of objects before she confronts Ursula. What are some of the things that Lettie gathers? How much trouble did she have to go to to collect those things? How does Lettie use the items? Do the items work as intended?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
In Chapter 2, the narrator has to share a room with his sister. What happens in the family that makes it necessary for the narrator to give up his bedroom? Why does he have mixed feelings about the move?
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