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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one of the fatal signs of fading power of a ruler in Alobar's kingdom?
(a) Inability to fulfill his wives' sexual appetites.
(b) Marriage.
(c) The birth of daughters.
(d) The birth of sons.

2. What is the egg laced with?
(a) Magic mushrooms.
(b) Arsenic.
(c) Iodine.
(d) Belladonna.

3. What color are Priscilla's eyes?
(a) Blue.
(b) Green.
(c) Brown.
(d) Violet.

4. How long has Madame Devalier kept her shop?
(a) Twenty years.
(b) Ten years.
(c) Forty years.
(d) Sixty years.

5. In plucking the hair, the king is fighting what?
(a) Himself.
(b) Life.
(c) Age.
(d) Fate.

6. What encircles the flower-seller's head like a crown?
(a) Bees.
(b) Ladybugs.
(c) Moths.
(d) Butterflies.

7. During what period was the building in which Priscilla lives built?
(a) The Great Depression.
(b) The 1970s.
(c) The Centennial.
(d) The 1950s.

8. What lies to the west of Alobar's kingdom?
(a) The land of the Greeks.
(b) The land of the Pagans.
(c) The land of the Romans.
(d) The land of the Italians.

9. What is Noog?
(a) A goat.
(b) A jester.
(c) A necromancer.
(d) A demigod.

10. What is the "most intense of vegetables"?
(a) The onion.
(b) The radish.
(c) The tomato.
(d) The beet.

11. Where are the LeFevers located?
(a) New York.
(b) Luxemburg.
(c) Dublin.
(d) Paris.

12. In what village do Alobar and Frol settle?
(a) Aelfric.
(b) Gryson.
(c) Rome.
(d) Amiton.

13. Which vegetable is "lusty enough"?
(a) Beets.
(b) Tomatoes.
(c) Cucumbers.
(d) Radishes.

14. What is the name of Priscilla's coworker?
(a) Ricki.
(b) Jesse.
(c) Mary Lou.
(d) Wilma.

15. What is left on Priscilla's doorstep in the middle of the night?
(a) A bottle.
(b) A beet.
(c) A flower.
(d) A note.

Short Answer Questions

1. The proverb of what nationality warns, "A tale that begins with a beet will end with the devil"?

2. What is the name of Madame Devalier's shop?

3. The egg sits upon a pillow made of what kind of material?

4. What are the rulers of Alobar's kingdom considered to be?

5. Which character plans to take Priscilla to the Daughters of the Daily Specials?

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