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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 the name of the cat that turns up at Hempstock Farm in pagan days?

2. In Chapter 3, what does the narrator have caught in his throat?

3. Where had Callie Anders lived?

4. In Chapter 2, how many beds are described in the narrator’s sister’s room?

5. To what tune does Lettie begin to bind the creature that she and the narrator encounter in Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator describe his seventh birthday party in Chapter 1?

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

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

4. What items lead Lettie to the creature in Chapter 4?

5. How does the narrator describe his family's last housekeeper in Chapter 6?

6. What does Mr. Wollery find in the garden in Chapter 3?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the end of the story, the narrator expresses feelings of guilt related to Lettie's disappearance. Why does the narrator feel this way? Are his feelings justified? Was the narrator to blame for what happened?

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 narrator's first impressions of Ursula when he meets her. Who does the narrator think that Ursula is? Why? What does he see when he looks at her? What does she do that makes it seem as though she has inhuman powers?

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