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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. At the newspaper office, Ethan and his mother read in the papers that “the Ladies Auxiliary of Gatlin County is starting a book club called” what, in Chapter 9: "Stars and Stripes"?
(a) The Quiet Read
(b) The Read & Babble
(c) The Read & Giggle
(d) The Ladies’ Reader

2. What is the name of the door to the Far Keep that Ethan remembers in Chapter 7: "Crosswords"?
(a) The Temporis Porta
(b) The Cataclyst Chasm
(c) The Thaumaturge
(d) The Palimpset Portal

3. When Ethan opens the bottle in Chapter 8: "Broken Bottles" and the narrative transitions to Amma’s childhood, what is Amma’s great-great-great grandmother called?
(a) Paula the Palimpset
(b) Del the Delinquent
(c) Sulla the Prophet
(d) Sarafine the Shifter

4. What does Ethan smell in Amma’s kitchen when he enters Wate’s Landing in Chapter 7: "Crosswords"?
(a) Chicken and dumplings
(b) Barbeque pork
(c) Roast chicken
(d) Beef pot roast

5. What is the name of the aunt that Amma says Ethan is with in Chapter 8: "Broken Bottles"?
(a) Sarafine
(b) Lila
(c) Marian
(d) Caroline

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ethan’s mother’s name in the novel?

2. What word is used in the novel to describe when the characters are telepathically communicating?

3. Who is described in the newspaper as having won the Carolina Duck-Calling contest in Chapter 9: "Stars and Stripes"?

4. Who was the teacher of Marian’s Buddhist class she has told Ethan about in Chapter 1: "Home"?

5. What object does Lena take out in Chapter 6: "Silver Button" that Ethan recalls giving her not long ago on the water tower?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ethan respond when he learns that Obidias wrote his page in The Caster Chronicles?

2. What are Twyla and Sulla doing when Ethan encounters them in Chapter 13: "Where the Crow Carries You"? Who are these characters?

3. What does Ethan obtain from the Greats when he visits them in the Otherworld in Chapter 13: "Where the Crow Carries You"?

4. How are Katherine Cooper and Samuel Sewell described in Chapter 13: "Where the Crow Carries You"?

5. What is Ethan’s first message that he sends to Lena in Chapter 9: "Stars and Stripes"?

6. How is the Otherworld arranged in terms of where the inhabitants exist? How are the houses described?

7. How is the River Master described in Chapter 15: "The River Master"? What is he doing when Ethan arrives?

8. What plot does Ethan instigate in order to send messages to Lena in Chapter 9: "Stars and Stripes"?

9. What does Ethan witness when he first sees Lena in the Mortal world of Gatlin in Chapter 6: "Silver Button"? How does he communicate with her?

10. What information is related in the Prologue: “Beginning Again? What tone is established in this opening?

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