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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. Why can’t the narrator stay in the ocean forever?

2. In Chapter 8, what does the narrator use to dry himself off?

3. In Chapter 9, what is Lettie’s mother doing when the narrator arrives at the house?

4. What color cat comes into the Hempstock kitchen in Chapter 13?

5. In Chapter 10, what type of jam does the narrator eat with his toast?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator have for breakfast at the Hempstock home in Chapter 10?

2. What does Lettie collect in an old shopping bag to take to the narrator’s house in Chapter 10?

3. Where do Lettie, Ginnie, and the narrator go in Chapter 14?

4. What does Ursula do in Chapter 11 when she finds the way back through the wormhole blocked?

5. Where does Ginnie take Lettie after she's been attacked by the hunger birds in Chapter 14?

6. What does the narrator do after arriving at the Hempstock home in Chapter 9?

7. How is the television set described in the narrator’s parents’ room?

8. Why is Ursula unable to go through the wormhole in Chapter 11?

9. How does the narrator describe his encounter with the opal miner in Chapter 12?

10. What does the narrator say he misses about childhood in Chapter 13?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the narrator's relationship with Lettie in the novel. What are some examples in the novel that illustrate the narrator's trust of Lettie? Is Lettie worthy of the narrator's trust? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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