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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the bird lead Vane?
(a) To the garden.
(b) To parliament.
(c) To the library.
(d) To a neighbor's foyer.

2. For what does the woman who has come back from death ask?
(a) Her clothes and jewels.
(b) Her paints.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Her son.

3. What does Vane want the woman to know?
(a) That God decreed that she be naked.
(b) That he has cared for her with reverence.
(c) That she can leave there when she wants.
(d) That she is reborn as a being of light.

4. What does Vane see but ignores?
(a) A dead child.
(b) A bleeding white creature.
(c) A black unicorn.
(d) A mossy skeleton.

5. What does Vane examine along the river bed?
(a) Gems.
(b) Water nymphs.
(c) Water lilies.
(d) Shrubs and trees.

6. What does Raven say the couple will eventually do?
(a) Love each other into being.
(b) Descend into Hell.
(c) Reincarnate again as a married couple.
(d) Find a path to heaven.

7. To whose cottage do Vane and Raven go?
(a) The crow.
(b) The clown.
(c) The archmage.
(d) The sexton.

8. What does Raven unearth for Vane to follow?
(a) A groundhog.
(b) A robin.
(c) A centipede.
(d) A firefly.

9. Why does Vane think he is not in Hell?
(a) Because some people seem happy.
(b) Because it is not hot.
(c) Because it is not icy.
(d) Because there are Little Ones.

10. What does the woman in white injure one of the Princess of Bulika's leopards?
(a) To keep it from killing her cat.
(b) To see if it is real.
(c) To keep it from drinking her baby's blood.
(d) To get revenge on the Princess.

11. About what does Vane learn?
(a) Heaven.
(b) Solitude.
(c) Hope.
(d) Hell.

12. For what does Raven use Vane's house?
(a) As a connection to All That Is.
(b) As a place of meditation.
(c) Visiting those who are asleep.
(d) As a conduit for visiting another world.

13. What does the woman catch biting Vane?
(a) A snake.
(b) A six-foot leech.
(c) A bee.
(d) A rat.

14. Why does the Princess of Bulika kill every baby of which she hears?
(a) Prophecy claims a child will be the cause of the Princess' death.
(b) She hates the innocence of children.
(c) She believes it is the only way to save her kingdom.
(d) She is jealous of other children because her own dies in infancy.

15. What calms Vane at the cottage?
(a) Chanting.
(b) Poppy juice.
(c) Tea.
(d) Bread and wine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does his guide become after Vane holds it?

2. Between what two groups does a furious battle take place?

3. What does Vane find on his cheek and neck after he wakes?

4. When will Vane know the reasons for what the sleepers do?

5. What is the rosebush?

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