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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 is a floating gardener?
(a) A fairy who writes music about gardens.
(b) A creature who weeds stories.
(c) A cloud that plants seeds.
(d) A man who tends to exotic flowers.

2. Why does Haroun wish to go to Gup City?
(a) To find Buttoo a new tie.
(b) To talk to the Walrus about becoming a Storyteller.
(c) To find his mother, Soraya.
(d) To get his father's cancelled subscription reversed.

3. Why are Rashid and Haroun forced to buy a bus ticket?
(a) Because thugs drop them off at the bus depot.
(b) Because they wish to chase after Soraya.
(c) Because their car gets stolen.
(d) Because the politicos have their own private bus.

4. Who is King Chattergy?
(a) The King of Gup.
(b) The Prince of Gup.
(c) The Prince of Chup.
(d) The King of Chup.

5. What does Haroun ask Butt for?
(a) Front row seats
(b) Front row seats in his coach and a trip to Dull Lake.
(c) Back row seats
(d) Back row seats in his coach and a trip back home.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Rashid's vocation?

2. Which animal does Haroun's bed take the shape of?

3. Who meets Rashid and Haroun at the railway station?

4. Why does Buttoo fly into a rage?

5. What is the other name for the Parliament of Gup?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Moody Land?

2. Why were Batcheat and her handmaidens at Chattery's Wall?

3. Why does Butt agree to help Haroun by driving him to the Valley of K?

4. Why are the cities of Gup and Chup separated from each other?

5. Describe Mali.

6. What does the Bezaban idol look like?

7. Why does Butt the Hoopoe not move his beak when he speaks?

8. What does Gup City look like?

9. Describe Buttoo.

10. What is the "Old Zone"?

(see the answer keys)

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