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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. In Chapter 14, what do the hunger birds say they have devoured?
(a) Kings and queens.
(b) Galaxies and stars.
(c) Countries and oceans.
(d) Palaces and worlds.

2. Whose clothing does the narrator borrow in Chapter 8?
(a) Cousin Japeth’s.
(b) Cousin Matthew’s.
(c) Uncle Bernard’s.
(d) Uncle Peter’s.

3. What does the narrator call the things that devour Ursula?
(a) Flying death.
(b) Hunger birds.
(c) Flying dinosaurs.
(d) Lizards.

4. In Chapter 8, how far is the narrator inside the boundaries of the Hempstock Farm?
(a) 10 feet.
(b) 20 feet.
(c) 15 feet.
(d) 5 feet.

5. How is the weather described in Chapter 8?
(a) Warm and cloudy.
(b) Rainy.
(c) Foggy.
(d) Clear and cold.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the cleaners refuse to leave?

2. What takes Lettie away in Chapter 14?

3. In Chapter 10, how does the narrator carry his pajamas and toothbrush home?

4. What color is the roof of the narrator’s house?

5. At the beginning of Chapter 13, what does Lettie say that makes the narrator forget his hunger and fear?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ursula do in Chapter 11 when she finds the way back through the wormhole blocked?

2. Where do Lettie, Ginnie, and the narrator go in Chapter 14?

3. What happens when the narrator runs to the hunger birds in Chapter 14?

4. Why does Lettie say the narrator cannot stay in the ocean forever in Chapter 13?

5. Where does Ginnie take Lettie after she's been attacked by the hunger birds in Chapter 14?

6. Why does the narrator leave the lane and cut across the fields in Chapter 8?

7. What does the narrator do after arriving at the Hempstock home in Chapter 9?

8. What do the Hempstocks serve the narrator for dinner in Chapter 9?

9. What does Ursula threaten to do to the narrator when she catches him in Chapter 8?

10. What do the hunger birds do when Lettie and Ginnie tell them they can’t come onto Hempstock land?

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