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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. What flows gently rather than appearing dramatically as on spherical planets?
(a) Water.
(b) Magic.
(c) Light.
(d) Sound.

2. What does Granny transform into upon interacting with Cutangle?
(a) A shining jewel.
(b) A wind, a storm, a sun, and a moon.
(c) A basket, an icy wind, a tar pit, and a tufted hood.
(d) A snake.

3. What plays an important role in the great battle in the library of Unseen University that occurs later in the novel?
(a) Wild spirits.
(b) Grimoires.
(c) Dancers.
(d) Hunters.

4. What does Granny tell Esk that Simon is doing that is unprecedented in a wizard?
(a) Fighting.
(b) Wandering.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Reading.

5. What does Esk realize that the bodies of the creatures attacking her are held together by?
(a) Spider webs.
(b) Wishful thinking.
(c) Nails.
(d) Metal rods.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who cannot remember the library ever being cleaned but allows Esk to do it?

2. Since her first Borrowing experience, what kind of dream has Esk gotten used to?

3. What does Simon have that makes Esk uncomfortable?

4. What inhabits the Dungeon Dimension that encircles the universe of time and space?

5. When Esk tries to move the staff, what does she do?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Esk enter the library and what does she notice that is different?

2. What does Esk ask the man who is counting tobacco and what does he tell her?

3. Who are the inhabitants of the Shades?

4. Who is Master Treatle and why is Adab Gander negotiating with him?

5. Who is traveling with Master Treatle?

6. What happens to the traveling caravan party three days after they leave Zemphis?

7. What do the dwarves offer to do for Granny, and what does she want instead?

8. When Granny enters the Great Hall and approaches Cutangle, what does he do?

9. How is the wizard apprentice process different in Esk and Simon's time from previously?

10. What is the nightmare that Esk has about the Strange Things when Granny finds her?

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