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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. About what phrase in the poem does Jared wonder?

2. Why is Simon crying?

3. What does Simon believe about Jared?

4. What does a note say that the children find?

5. What is odd about Mallory's hair?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jared answer the accusations, what does Simon believe and what does Jared's mother do to Jared?

2. How does Mrs. Grace feel when she wakes up Jared in the morning and what does she show him?

3. What does Jared ultimately find in the trunk?

4. What do Simon and Mallory think about her situation?

5. How does Jared feel about the trunk in the attic and what does he do with the trunk? What does he find?

6. What is the attic like?

7. What does Jared ask Mallory about her hair and what are Mallory's private doubts?

8. What is the most upsetting thing about the problems downstairs and what does Jared's mother accuse him of concerning Simon's mice?

9. What wakes Jared in the morning, where does he run, what does he see and who else is there with him?

10. What phrase is Jared thinking about in the poem, and where does he decide to go?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Whenever reading a science fiction or fantasy novel, one must become familiar with new terminology that explains concepts or technology that is not a part of the "real" world. In the case of The Field Guide, much of the setting is familiar to the reader, though there are new ideas and terms to learn. Discuss the following:

1. Find five terms that are a part of The Field Guide's world that occur in the "real" world but are used differently in The Field Guide's world. Define the words as used in in The Field Guide's world and compare those five words as to how they are currently used in the American English language.

2. There are ways of learning about a new world or time when reading a science fiction or fantasy novel. Discuss the ways you were able to understand the world of The Field Guide. Did you have to look up any words? What does it mean to learn a word through its context? Do you have to do that in The Field Guide? What word(s)?

3. Were there any words you never really understood from The Field Guide? Which ones?

Essay Topic 2

Simon find the door through the linen closet that goes into the library, so Mallory is able to join them. This is a metaphor to the effect that Mallory is now backing the twin boys to stop the pranks of the boggart. She believes that the faerie, the boggart, is present in the house.

1. With research, define a metaphor and give two examples of one that is not the one above. Use examples from The Field Guide and your own life to support your answer.

2. Explain the metaphor of Mallory joining the boys in the library. Use examples from The Field Guide and your own life to support your answer.

3. How do you think metaphors enhance a reader's experience? Use examples from The Field Guide and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Oftentimes, a book has more of a character-driven plot rather than action driven, and sometimes it is the other way. Some books seem to balance the two. Discuss the following:

1. What do you think it means to say that a plot is character driven? Action driven?

2. How do you think a plot differs if it is character driven versus action driven?

3. Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why?

4. Do you think it is possible to have a plot where action and character development share equal time? Why or why not.

5. What type of plot do you think The Field Guide is? Explain your response.

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