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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 is the traveler's mission in order to get Dorothy home?

2. What is Dorothy's aunt's name?

3. How long was the Woodman standing in the woods as Dorothy and Scarecrow found him?

4. Scarecrow doesn't mind being made of straw because be never gets hurt and he never gets ________.

5. What is Dorothy given to wear when she meets the Wizard?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is the person Dorothy runs to when she finally gets back to Kansas?

2. What are the strangest creatures that the travelers encounter when they are nearly at Glinda's castle?

3. Who is Dorothy's constant companion and friend?

4. Because of the decision in #27, what happens to the Tin Woodman?

5. Who makes up the family that lives on the Kansas prairie?

6. The travelers find themselves lost in the land of the Winkies. Why?

7. When Dorothy and the Scarecrow finish their stories, what happens?

8. How do the Munchkins and the Witch of the North know that Dorothy has killed the Wicked Witch of the East?

9. What does the Scarecrow threaten to do if the Wizard will not see them?

10. What do the travelers have to wear before they can enter the City of Emeralds?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain what "There's no place like home" means to Dorothy and what it means generally to you as the reader.

Essay Topic 2

The setting of the story plays a large part at the beginning of Dorothy's adventures, with everything being gray and lifeless. Why do you think Baum decided to create this sort of setting for the story? How does it help or hurt the story? Why? Describe alternative settings that may have been just as effective.

Essay Topic 3

The Wizard is only hidden by a screen, it is revealed in the end. Why do you think no one ever looked behind the screen before? What stopped others from finding the Wizard out? If you were the Wizard, how would you have hidden yourself so that you couldn't be detected?

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