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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 does Lettie do when Ursula refuses to put the narrator down in Chapter 11?

2. What is the silly pet name that the narrator’s father had for him when he was a baby?

3. In Chapter 8, what color raincoat is Lettie wearing?

4. What color is the roof of the narrator’s house?

5. What do the Hempstocks give to the narrator’s parents after they bring his toothbrush to him?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator get out of his locked bedroom in Chapter 8?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What is the purpose of the hole that Ursula left inside the narrator?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the narrator's nature and his interests. How are these interests illustrated through his birthday gifts? Why doesn’t the narrator have a lot of friends? Who does he consider his friends?

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 13, Lettie brings the ocean to the narrator. How does Lettie do this? Why doesn’t Lettie take the narrator to the ocean? How does the ocean bring the narrator to safety?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Ursula's entrance into the narrator's world. How did she enter? What remnants does the narrator bear on his body to show how she came? What do the Hempstock women do about the passage?

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