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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 kills the fish in Lettie’s ocean in Chapter 2?
2. What does the narrator read before he goes to sleep in Chapter 5?
3. In Chapter 2, what room is the narrator’s bedroom over?
4. What type of dog does the secretary who works for the narrator’s father have?
5. What does the narrator put on his foot after removing the worm?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the narrator’s father do when he comes home from work in Chapter 7?
2. Where does the narrator like to read on nice spring days?
3. Why does the narrator say that his father has never hit him?
4. Describe the narrator's dream in Chapter 3. What does the narrator discover when he wakes?
5. How does the narrator describe Ursula when she first arrives?
6. Who steals the narrator’s father’s car in Chapter 2? Why?
7. How does the narrator describe his seventh birthday party in Chapter 1?
8. What does Mr. Wollery find in the garden in Chapter 3?
9. From whom does the narrator receive a letter in Chapter 3? What is revealed in the letter?
10. What does the narrator’s father do in Chapter 7 after the narrator refuses to eat or apologize to Ursula?
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
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 3
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?
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