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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. How does the narrator get hurt when Ursula crumples to the ground?

2. How fragile does the narrator realize that the reality of his world is in Chapter 13?

3. How many times does the narrator say he had seen grownups cry in Chapter 11?

4. What color is the narrator’s toothbrush?

5. What do the Hempstocks serve the narrator for dinner in Chapter 9?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What do the Hempstocks serve the narrator for dinner in Chapter 9?

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

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

6. Why does Ursula say when she is sent to talk to the narrator in Chapter 12?

7. Why does the narrator leave the lane and cut across the fields in Chapter 8?

8. What does Lettie bring when she finally arrives in Chapter 13?

9. What do the hunger birds do when Lettie and Ginnie tell them they can’t come onto Hempstock land?

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

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

Discuss the narrator's experiences in the fairy ring in Chapter 12. Why does Lettie make him wait inside the ring? What attempts are made to lure him outside of the ring? Why does he ignore these attempts?

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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