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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. At the end of Chapter 12, how many times does the narrator sing a song completely through?

2. Where does Ursula try to break the jam jar containing the wormhole?

3. What type of vehicle drives past as the narrator runs toward the Hempstock Farm in Chapter 8?

4. What does Lettie bring to the narrator in Chapter 13?

5. About how far is the narrator’s home from the Hempstock farm?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Lettie say the narrator cannot stay in the ocean forever in Chapter 13?

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

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

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

5. How does the narrator describe the clothes that have been left out for him in Chapter 10?

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

7. The narrator says in Chapter 11 that he has only seen grownups cry twice. How does he describe these events?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Ursula's attempt to enter the wormhole in Chapter 11. What happens when the jar is opened and the wormhole turned out upon the ground? What does the wormhole look like when it is on the ground? Does it look big enough for Ursula to go through? Why doesn’t she use it to return?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the narrator's first impressions of Ursula when he meets her. Who does the narrator think that Ursula is? Why? What does he see when he looks at her? What does she do that makes it seem as though she has inhuman powers?

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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