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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 was the name of the next door neighbor's dog?

2. How did Dimitri feel about Katerina?

3. What one thing did Katerina not fear?

4. What does Ivan ask the children of the village for?

5. What doesn't Esther do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why doesn't Esther take pupils and teach them what she knows, practice her witchcraft openly?

2. What was the difference in opinion as to why Ivan listened to Katerina once he had awakened her?

3. What happened to Ruth's brownies?

4. Why was Yaga especially upset about regarding Bear?

5. How does Ivan deduce that Katerina and him should not be on the plane they got on?

6. What was the effect of the weapons of the future against the peasants of the Widow's army?

7. What choice does Ivan give his children that he didn't have himself?

8. What shamed Katerina about the airplane, how did she react, and how did she rebuke herself for doing so?

9. Why did Mikola not write down his spells, despite the fact that he had thought about doing so?

10. How does Ivan tell Katerina she will be perceived by the people in his world if she doesn't wear clothes?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Card provides a background story for Yaga that creates sympathy for her. Suggest reasons why Card does this, and doesn't create a background story for Katerina, regarding how she grew up, or Dimitri for why he is so quick to anger, or Bear for how he became a God.

Essay Topic 2

Although towards the end, Ivan is concerned that he has changed history, he remembers instances in which Ivan is mentioned several times in the modern versions of the fairy tales. Suggest reasons why Ivan wasn't concerned about this the moment he went back in time, although it is a consideration often mentioned in literature regarding time travel of any kind.

Essay Topic 3

Sergei and Ivan have issues attempting to get a hold of parchment paper to record the fairy tales of Taina's time. Explain how the shortage of availability of paper would lead to issues in preservation and historical compilations aside from those of a religious nature.

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