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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. How long had it been since the princess had undergone enchantment?

2. Who had sent the bear after Katerina?

3. What was the moral of the story of the Sky, the Rat and the Well?

4. What did Vanya like about the way Americans spoke?

5. What do his classmates call Vanya?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Ivan solve the problem of the bear?

2. What problems occurred in Taina when Baba Yaga appeared?

3. How did Ivan's parents' sacrifice weigh heavily on his mind? How did this affect the way he led his life?

4. What does Ivan need to do in order to go home?

5. How did Ivan justify what he had seen and heard in the forest as a child?

6. What was the difference in the way cousin Marek and Ivan had gained their muscles and toned bodies?

7. What issue did Ivan have once he had hit the bear?

8. What does Ivan realize is the death knell for Taina?

9. What bothered Ivan about his relationship with his father and why?

10. What happened to Esther when Ivan rescued the princess Katerina?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

From Sergei's perspective, the reader learns that most of the fairy tales were used to scare children. Discuss why this is no longer practiced as a matter of cause in modern times, and the resources available to disprove such scare tactics, and make the argument for whether or not the world is more or less frightening for children.

Essay Topic 2

Katerina and Ivan give their children all the choice in the world about what they want to do and who they want to be. Discuss how this might be a problem, with children having different lives in different worlds, and whether or not it makes them unsuited for either.

Essay Topic 3

Esther laments on the fall of modern witchcraft and discusses how it has changed. Utilizing unbiased, scholarly sources, provide a detailed account of modern and ancient witchcraft and what it meant to the practitioners and what punishment was meted out and is still in place for practitioners of Paganism.

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