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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 two of the following are one and the same?
(a) Giants, killers.
(b) Sorcerers, wizards.
(c) Dwarves, women.
(d) Wizardry, high magic.

2. When Esk tries to move the staff, what does she do?
(a) She loses to new wizards.
(b) She fails.
(c) She changes Discworld in tiny ways.
(d) She fights bloody wars.

3. When blinding blue light floods Simon's room, what does Esk's hair look like?
(a) Moss.
(b) Dirt.
(c) Dandelions.
(d) Spider's web.

4. When Esk quotes Granny on warlocks and wizards, what is she pleasantly surprised to learn?
(a) Treatle has great respect for witches.
(b) The dwarves look suspicious.
(c) Hilta fights back.
(d) Simon does not laugh.

5. What is a beacon to Shadow creatures who hate those who are alive?
(a) Potions.
(b) Things.
(c) Magic.
(d) Death.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Granny notice the sound of hammers everywhere?

2. What are the nasty creatures that threaten to kill Gander's traveling caravan?

3. What is the self-assembled creature that Esk sees when she falls down in her magical state on the cold sand and sees Simon sitting in a circle?

4. When Esk feels a state of nothingness, what feeling does she know that she must hold on in order to return to her human state?

5. When Esk tries to enter Simon's room and cannot get the door open, what does she say to the student wizards?

Short Essay Questions

1. When the senior wizards arrive in the library, what do they think has happened to Simon, and what do they do about him?

2. What does Granny transform herself into to deflect Cutangle's attacks?

3. Why does Granny tell Esk not to draw attention to herself through magic?

4. What does Granny pretend to do for the person in charge of the laundry operations?

5. What does Esk say that Cutangle finds fascinating and unprecedented but against the lore?

6. Who are the inhabitants of the Shades?

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

8. What happens to students who fail to become wizards?

9. How does Granny enter the University and what does she find?

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

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