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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. What does Jemmy hide from the outlaw in?

2. To what animal is Jemmy's running compared in Chapter 13?

3. Who follows Jemmy running out of the hut in Chapter 13?

4. What is Jemmy harder to catch than?

5. Who does Jemmy meet in the city?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Jemmy relieved to finally reach the city streets in Chapter 18?

2. How does the prince feel about the boys' adventure in the forest?

3. Why does Jemmy hide in the pile of potatoes?

4. Why does the prince refuse to deliver the ransom note?

5. Why do the outlaws whip Prince Brat?

6. Who do Jemmy and the prince meet in the forest after they get away from Cutwater in Chapter 14?

7. Why does Prince Brat not yell and holler when he is getting whipped?

8. What does the prince do when he meets Smudge in the city?

9. Why do the boys want to stay out of the left side of the sewers?

10. Why does Jemmy dismiss himself from the prince's service?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The author uses the literary technique of foreshadowing to help the reader predict certain events to come in the story. Explain how the author uses foreshadowing in the story. What specific instances illustrate the foreshadowing technique? What later events do these events foreshadow? How does the use of foreshadowing help the reader understand the story?

Essay Topic 2

The author uses multiple similes and metaphors as descriptors for both characters and certain situations. Choose three similes and three metaphors used in the book. Identify and explain how these metaphors and similes describe the character or event. How are similes and metaphors useful? With what information do these techniques provide the reader? Be sure to use specific examples from the story in the response.

Essay Topic 3

Jemmy spends his life in the city sewers before he is turned into the prince's whipping boy. Write a response comparing and contrasting Jemmy's two lives. How is his life in the sewers similar to his life in the castle? How are those two parts of his life different? How does one affect or influence the other? How does Jemmy take knowledge from one situation to another? Be sure to use specific examples from the story in the response.

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