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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. How does the narrator stop the light from hitting the hole in his foot in Chapter 5?

2. In Chapter 2, what color is the washbasin in the narrator’s room?

3. Where is the opal miner said to be from?

4. In the Prologue, how long has it been since the narrator’s marriage failed?

5. What does Ellen Henderson send the narrator on his birthday in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does the narrator go while the police deal with the narrator’s father’s car and its contents in Chapter 2?

2. What does the narrator’s father do in Chapter 7 after the narrator refuses to eat or apologize to Ursula?

3. Who steals the narrator’s father’s car in Chapter 2? Why?

4. How does the narrator describe his seventh birthday party in Chapter 1?

5. What does the narrator’s sister do every night before bed?

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

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

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

9. How does the narrator describe his family's last housekeeper in Chapter 6?

10. Why does the opal miner give the narrator a cat in Chapter 1?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 2, the narrator has to share a room with his sister. What happens in the family that makes it necessary for the narrator to give up his bedroom? Why does he have mixed feelings about the move?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the narrator's first impressions of Ursula when he meets her. Who does the narrator think that Ursula is? Why? What does he see when he looks at her? What does she do that makes it seem as though she has inhuman powers?

Essay Topic 3

Why does the narrator go for a drive in the Prologue? Where is he supposed to be? Why doesn’t he go there? How does his subconscious lead him to his destination?

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