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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 is the weather described in Chapter 8?

2. What color is the kitten that sleeps with the narrator in Chapter 9?

3. When the narrator is in the ocean, what can he see above and below him?

4. After the narrator wakes in Chapter 10, who helps him find his way downstairs?

5. In Chapter 8, how far is the narrator inside the boundaries of the Hempstock Farm?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What comes out at dusk when the narrator is in the fairy ring?

4. What suggestions are made for dealing with the narrator's parents before they arrive at the Hempstocks' home in Chapter 9?

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

6. What does Ursula threaten to do to the narrator when she catches him in Chapter 8?

7. Why does Lettie praise the narrator in Chapter 13?

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

9. At the beginning of Chapter 12, what does the narrator see as he settles into the fairy ring?

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 escape from his locked bedroom in Chapter 8. What emotions go through the narrator’s mind when he realizes that Ursula has locked him in? How does the narrator escape? Does he leave because of fear or courage?

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 10, Lettie gathers a mishmash of objects before she confronts Ursula. What are some of the things that Lettie gathers? How much trouble did she have to go to to collect those things? How does Lettie use the items? Do the items work as intended?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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