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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. Why is Simon apprehensive about seeing Agatha for the first time after break at Watford?
(a) He saw her holding hands with Baz and was hurt and jealous.
(b) She may be getting ready to leave the school.
(c) She tried to break up with him during the last term and he is afraid she will ask to break up again.
(d) She may have gotten a new puppy and he is allergic to dogs.

2. Who is Baz's mother?
(a) Fiona Grimm-Pitch.
(b) Melinda Pitch.
(c) Natasha Grimm-Pitch.
(d) Jennifer Pitch.

3. Who tries to kill Simon on the way to Watford in Chapter 3?
(a) Baz.
(b) The Humdrum.
(c) Penny.
(d) A goblin.

4. What spell does Simon almost accidentally cast on Agatha in Chapter 26?
(a) A spell of sleep.
(b) A spell of love.
(c) A spell of mind-reading.
(d) A spell of compulsion to force her to tell him the truth.

5. What does Baz notice is strange about the dining hall situation in Chapter 29?
(a) Agatha in not sitting with Simon and Penny.
(b) All the teachers are in the dining hall, too, which never happens.
(c) There are chickens everywhere.
(d) All the first years are gone.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Simon look most forward to in coming back to Watford after break?

2. Who saves Baz from his kidnapping?

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

4. Why does Simon think he must have been born to normals rather than magicians?

5. What does Simon think about how Baz looks when he finally returns to school?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Simon's attitude towards his roommate, Tyrannus Basilton (Baz) Pitch?

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

3. Why is Simon nervous and apprehensive about seeing Agatha, his girlfriend, for the first time coming back to Watford in Chapter 2?

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

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

6. What does Baz's Aunt Fiona want Baz to break into the Mage's office for?

7. What does Simon Snow like to think about his biological parents?

8. In Chapter 21, what does the Mage resolve to do in regards to Simon?

9. What physical object does Simon most often, and instinctively, reach for when he is about to perform magic?

10. 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?

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