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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 color is the ground in Chapter 14, right before the hunger birds come?
2. In Chapter 8, what color does the meadow explode into?
3. What color is the roof of the narrator’s house?
4. What color does Old Mrs. Hempstock emanate when she scolds the hunger birds in Chapter 14?
5. In Chapter 14, what do the hunger birds say they have devoured?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Ursula threaten to do to the narrator when she catches him in Chapter 8?
2. What do the cleaners look like?
3. In Chapter 10, what does the narrator see outside the window when he wakes in the night?
4. How does the narrator get out of his locked bedroom in Chapter 8?
5. What suggestions are made for dealing with the narrator's parents before they arrive at the Hempstocks' home in Chapter 9?
6. How is the television set described in the narrator’s parents’ room?
7. Why does Ursula say when she is sent to talk to the narrator in Chapter 12?
8. What is the purpose of the hole that Ursula left inside the narrator?
9. What happens when the narrator runs to the hunger birds in Chapter 14?
10. At the beginning of Chapter 12, what does the narrator see as he settles into the fairy ring?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
In Chapter 6, the narrator finds himself reading to try to quell his fears. How would you describe the narrator’s reading habits? Why does he enjoy reading so much? What does reading take the place of in his life?
Essay Topic 3
Why does Ursula refuse to leave in Chapter 11? How does Lettie respond to Ursula's refusal to depart? Why does Ursula change her mind?
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