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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. Where does Ursula threaten to put the narrator when she catches up with him in Chapter 8?

2. What color boots does Ginnie Hempstock wear at the end of Chapter 13?

3. What have the cleaners promised Ursula in Chapter 12?

4. In Chapter 9, what color thread does Granny use when she is snipping and sewing?

5. What does Lettie look like in the ocean?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator get out of his locked bedroom in Chapter 8?

2. Why is Ursula unable to go through the wormhole in Chapter 11?

3. At the beginning of Chapter 12, what does the narrator see as he settles into the fairy ring?

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

5. How does the narrator describe his encounter with the opal miner in Chapter 12?

6. What does Lettie bring when she finally arrives in Chapter 13?

7. What does the narrator say he misses about childhood in Chapter 13?

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

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

10. In Chapter 10, what does the narrator see outside the window when he wakes in the night?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss the hunger birds in the novel. What do they look like? What is another name for these creatures? What is their purpose? What do the creatures do to Ursula?

Essay Topic 2

Why does Ursula refuse to leave in Chapter 11? How does Lettie respond to Ursula's refusal to depart? Why does Ursula change her mind?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Ursula's entrance into the narrator's world. How did she enter? What remnants does the narrator bear on his body to show how she came? What do the Hempstock women do about the passage?

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