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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 does the narrator read before he goes to sleep in Chapter 5?

2. What is Lettie’s ocean implied to actually be?

3. Around what time of day does the man commit suicide in the narrator’s father’s car?

4. How old was the narrator when he lived in the old house that had been knocked down?

5. What is the name of the cat that turns up at Hempstock Farm in pagan days?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator like and dislike about sharing a bedroom with his sister?

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

3. What does the narrator’s father do when he comes home from work in Chapter 7?

4. What does the narrator find when he examines his foot in Chapter 5?

5. From whom does the narrator receive a letter in Chapter 3? What is revealed in the letter?

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

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

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

9. How does the narrator describe the lane that he drives in the Prologue?

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

Discuss the narrator's escape from his locked bedroom in Chapter 8. What emotions go through the narrator’s mind when he realizes that Ursula has locked him in? How does the narrator escape? Does he leave because of fear or courage?

Essay Topic 2

What are some examples of foreshadowing used in the narrative? How does foreshadowing advance the plot? How does it increase tension in the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss the hunger birds in the novel. What do they look like? What is another name for these creatures? What is their purpose? What do the creatures do to Ursula?

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