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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 the opal miner gives to the narrator?

2. In Chapter 2, what room is the narrator’s bedroom over?

3. What is the name of the Hempstocks' cow?

4. In Chapter 7, from where does the narrator watch as his father shows Ursula around the gardens?

5. In Chapter 4, what does the narrator see beneath the milk-churn table?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the narrator describe the clearing that he and Lettie enter in their search for the creature in Chapter 4?

3. Who are Mr. and Mrs. Wollery? What are their positions in the narrator's household?

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does the narrator get rid of the worm after removing it from his foot?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

In Chapter 12, the cleaners say that the narrator will never be happy in the world.

a. Why did they say he would never be happy?

b. From reading the Prologue and Epilogue, was the narrator’s life as the cleaners described it in Chapter 12?

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter 13, Lettie brings the ocean to the narrator. How does Lettie do this? Why doesn’t Lettie take the narrator to the ocean? How does the ocean bring the narrator to safety?

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