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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the narrator’s laboratory in actuality?
(a) A space under the front porch.
(b) A back room at the library.
(c) A corner of the basement.
(d) A green-painted shed.

3. What color skirt is Lettie wearing when the narrator first meets her?
(a) Red.
(b) Black.
(c) Green.
(d) Pink.

4. What types of trees line the side of the meadow at the Hempstock farm?
(a) Oak.
(b) Hazel.
(c) Pine.
(d) Walnut.

5. What color bathtub is in the narrator’s house?
(a) Green.
(b) Cream.
(c) White.
(d) Yellow.

Short Answer Questions

1. Once the narrator becomes an adult, who tells him that he had been a monster when he was a child?

2. In Chapter 2, what room is the narrator’s bedroom over?

3. What presents does the narrator receive for his seventh birthday?

4. Who is described as the previous housekeeper at the narrator's family's home in Chapter 6?

5. How long had Mr. Wollery tended the gardens at the narrator’s house before they lived there?

Short Essay Questions

1. From whom does the narrator receive a letter in Chapter 3? What is revealed in the letter?

2. What does the narrator describe having cut out of his knee with a penknife in Chapter 5? What did he learn?

3. What are narcissi and what are they named for?

4. Where did the narrator live growing up? At what point did his family move?

5. How does the narrator get rid of the worm after removing it from his foot?

6. Describe the narrator's dream in Chapter 3. What does the narrator discover when he wakes?

7. What does the narrator’s father do when he comes home from work in Chapter 7?

8. How does the narrator describe the clearing that he and Lettie enter in their search for the creature in Chapter 4?

9. Why does the narrator let go of Lettie’s hand in Chapter 4?

10. Where does the narrator like to read on nice spring days?

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