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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. In "The Overcoat," what does the narrator find when he tries to go to Julie's house to get his coat back?
2. In "Those Three Bears," what does the young bear do when it realizes that the narrator is looking at it?
3. In "The Thief's Story," what skill does Hari falsely claim to have?
4. In "Those Three Bears," why does the narrator say most Himalayan villages are found in valleys?
5. In "And Now We are Twelve," what is the name of the man whose wife, children, and grandchildren form Bond's family?
Short Essay Questions
1. In "A Traveller's Tale," what happens when the narrator hears a tapping at his window at night?
2. In "The Coral Tree," what is the significance of the narrator's repeated claim that the girl is "fresh and clean like the rain and the red earth" (118, 121)?
3. In "The Overcoat," what does the narrator discover when he talks to Mrs. Taylor?
4. In "The Night the Roof Blew Off," how do the children make important contributions to saving the family's possessions?
5. In "Wild Fruit," what cruel trick does the well-dressed boy play on Vijay?
6. In "Pret in the House," what causes the family to decide that they need to move to a new house?
7. In "Those Three Bears," what do the villagers do with their pumpkins, and how does this cause a surprise for the narrator one night?
8. In "Those Three Bears," where is the narrator from, and how does the reader know this?
9. In "The Night the Roof Blew Off," what reasons do the family have for thinking that the roof will last through any storm?
10. In "Pret in the House," what happens with the ghost at the end of the story, and how does the reader know this?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Many of the stories in Great Stories for Children feature acts of kindness--between people, between people and animals, and even between people and ghosts. Choose two stories that feature acts of kindness and compare and contrast how these stories use plot and characterization to convey ideas about kindness.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that examines the motif of "legacies" in Great Stories for Children. Choose at least three stories in which older people pass something important on to younger people: knowledge, a possession, a passion, etc. Use evidence from these stories to support a claim about how the "legacies" motif works in this story collection.
Essay Topic 3
Many of the children in Great Stories for Children are being raised by their grandparents. Do some research into the social and economic effect of grandparents raising their grandchildren and then write an essay that makes and defends a claim about whether it is overall better or worse for children to be raised by their grandparents. Cite your sources in MLA format.
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