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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 type of animal do the hunger birds grab in Chapter 14?

2. What does the narrator have for dessert in Chapter 13?

3. From where does Lettie seem to come in Chapter 12 as the narrator waits in the fairy ring?

4. What flavor is the tooth powder that the narrator uses in Chapter 10?

5. In Chapter 8, what color does the meadow explode into?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Ursula do in Chapter 11 when she finds the way back through the wormhole blocked?

5. What happens when the narrator runs to the hunger birds in Chapter 14?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

Describe the narrator's experiences in the ocean in Chapter 13. What sensations does the narrator feel when he is in the ocean? Why does he want to stay there? Why can’t he stay there?

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