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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. Which of the following do Simon and Baz have in common?
(a) They both never knew their fathers.
(b) They both have friends named Penny.
(c) They both have nightmares.
(d) They both have stepmothers.

2. What does Penny tell Simon about the visitors from behind the veil?
(a) They are out to hurt people.
(b) They are only allowed to speak in a language other than their native language.
(c) They are harmless.
(d) They can only ever come back to appear to the living one time in total.

3. Who is Simon's best friend?
(a) The Mage.
(b) Agatha.
(c) Penny.
(d) Baz.

4. In Chapter 25, what is Lucy trying to do?
(a) Cast a spell.
(b) Make a cake.
(c) Communicate with someone, but the reader does not know who.
(d) Get back into her grave.

5. Why is Ebb so sad all the time?
(a) She thinks she is not up to taking care of the goat herd.
(b) She has no magic, and she misses it.
(c) She has a brother whom she lost.
(d) She thinks she let down her husband when she could not save him from the Humdrum.

Short Answer Questions

1. What object does Simon use to channel his magic?

2. What does the Humdrum create that is dangerous for magicians?

3. Why does Agatha have reservations about staying with Simon?

4. Who is Baz's best friend?

5. What is the consequence of a Watford student being caught in a dorm room of the opposite sex?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Baz's Aunt Fiona not want him to return to Watford right away after she rescues him?

2. How does Simon Snow feel about Watford?

3. What does Penelope (Penny) think of Simon when she sees him back from summer break at Watford for the first time in Chapter 4?

4. What happens when the Mage tells Simon he must leave Watford in Chapter 7?

5. In Chapter 18, what is Davy's concern about the way that Watford is going?

6. Why does Agatha walk the ramparts hoping Baz will come back in Chapter 24?

7. What is the creature that Simon, Penny, and much of the magical world are so afraid of in the first few chapters of the book, and why?

8. Who tries to attack Simon on his way from the train station to Watford in Chapter 3, and why does that creature do it?

9. How do things go for Simon when he sees Agatha for the first time since summer break in Chapter 12?

10. Why does Penny hate to talk to Simon about Baz?

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