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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 first thing that Mrs. Kinsella wants the narrator to do after her father leaves?

2. How does the narrator imagine that Mr. Kinsella might take her to town?

3. What does the narrator imagine that Mr. Kinsella might buy her in town?

4. In Chapter 1, why is the narrator feeling bad when her father leaves?

5. What is different about the bath for the narrator from the ones she has had at home?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator feel when her father leaves her at the Kinsellas?

2. At the well, what can the narrator hear in Chapter 2?

3. How does a dog greet the narrator and her father when they arrive at the Kinsellas?

4. How does Mrs. Kinsella help the narrator with her bath in Chapter 2?

5. What does the narrator see as her father turns off on the lane to the Kinsellas?

6. How is the narrator's mother always busy?

7. In Chapter 1, where is the narrator riding in the car, and what does she do and see?

8. In Chapter 1, where do the narrator and her father drive?

9. Why does the narrator tell Mrs. Kinsella that her family does not have their hay harvested?

10. How does the narrator get upstairs and what does she see?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Kinsellas seem to balance one another. How would you describe the relationship the Kinsellas have? What is conveyed about marriage as a partnership through their relationship?

Essay Topic 2

Things are very different for the narrator at the Kinsellas than at her home. How and why does the narrator have to adapt to life with the Kinsellas?

Essay Topic 3

Idioms are words that have a figurative, rather than a literal meaning. How are idioms used in Foster to help characters communicate? How do idioms help create word pictures and mental images for readers in a concise manner? How do idioms help readers understand characters, emotions, and ideas?

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