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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long had Mr. Wollery tended the gardens at the narrator’s house before they lived there?
(a) 50 years.
(b) 30 years.
(c) 40 years.
(d) 20 years.

2. In Chapter 4, what does the narrator see beneath the milk-churn table?
(a) White and yellow daisies.
(b) Golden dandelions.
(c) A bluebell.
(d) Buttercups.

3. What color dress is Lettie wearing in Chapter 3?
(a) Green.
(b) Pink.
(c) Blue.
(d) White.

4. What is the name of the Hempstocks' cow?
(a) Bridget.
(b) Bossy.
(c) Bessie.
(d) Molly.

5. What is the setting of the story that the narrator reads after his father and Ursula come in from the gardens in Chapter 7?
(a) Channel Islands.
(b) Canary Islands.
(c) Paris.
(d) London.

6. What does Old Mrs. Hempstock say happened to the really old country?
(a) It blew up.
(b) It sank.
(c) It was under a volcano.
(d) It was destroyed by a hurricane.

7. What had the narrator once dug out of his knee with a penknife?
(a) A splinter.
(b) Glass.
(c) A wart.
(d) A toothpick.

8. Once the narrator becomes an adult, who tells him that he had been a monster when he was a child?
(a) His aunts.
(b) His grandparents.
(c) His dad.
(d) His mom.

9. In Chapter 3, what does the narrator have caught in his throat?
(a) An apple.
(b) A coin.
(c) Candy.
(d) A bone.

10. What type of vehicle does the narrator’s father get in Chapter 3?
(a) Nova.
(b) Mini.
(c) Range Rover.
(d) Austin.

11. Around what time of day does the man commit suicide in the narrator’s father’s car?
(a) 3 a.m.
(b) Dawn.
(c) Midnight.
(d) 2 a.m.

12. What presents does the narrator receive for his seventh birthday?
(a) Football.
(b) Baseball.
(c) Batman figure and Narnia books.
(d) Superman figure and Wizard of Oz books.

13. In the bottle of coins the gardener finds in the garden, what is the latest date on the coins?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1928.
(d) 1911.

14. On what day of the week does the narrator receive a letter saying he won the Premium Bonds?
(a) Monday.
(b) Wednesday.
(c) Thursday.
(d) Tuesday.

15. In Chapter 4, what is the second color Lettie wants to find?
(a) Blue.
(b) Black.
(c) White.
(d) Lavender.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator feel pain when he catches the writhing mass of cobwebs and rotting cloth in Chapter 4?

2. Where had Callie Anders lived?

3. In Chapter 7, from where does the narrator watch as his father shows Ursula around the gardens?

4. In Chapter 2, how many weeks of vacation from school does the narrator get?

5. In Chapter 7, what flowers can the narrator see as he watches his father and Ursula walk around the gardens?

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