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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 is Granny adamant about concerning male and female magic?

2. When Granny talks about men to Esk, what does she tell Esk that men are all about?

3. When Esk wakes up on the boat, what does she hear?

4. What did Granny do in her youth that she found more difficult to do as she got older?

5. Whom does Esk accompany and protect from being cheated?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Granny finds the eagle on a snowdrift?

2. When Esk asks why Granny does not use magic to light a fire, what does Granny say?

3. What happens when Esk escapes from the Skillers?

4. What is "headology?"

5. Esk's use of the staff demonstrates something to Granny. What is that?

6. What does the wizard Billet come into the town of Bad Ass for and what does he find?

7. Why does Granny have a stormy scene with the Smith family?

8. What does Esk have to do in return for being allowed to travel with the Zoon family?

9. What does Granny decide to do after she realizes that Esk is different from other witches and wizards she knows?

10. Why does Granny dread asking the staff for help?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Create a brief portrait study of Granny. What does she look like? What are her positive personality traits? What are some of her negative characteristics? What are her hopes and fears? What motivates her through her life? How does she change from the beginning of the book to the middle to the end?

Essay Topic 2

What is Borrowing? When Esk does this for the first time, how does she change? What does she struggle with? What does she give up? How does she come back into her own body? Describe.

Essay Topic 3

Consider the discussion about witches that appears throughout the book. What is a witch according to Granny? What is a witch according to Cutangle? How does this definition change with the arrival of Esk? What are witches traditionally associated with?

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