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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 does Caleb give Ruby on New Year’s Eve, as seen in Chapter 5?

2. Who provides Montrose with the means to defeat Caleb in Chapter 8?

3. According to Ruby’s mother on page 220, who are the real magicians?

4. What does Montrose instruct Atticus to report at the end of Chapter 6?

5. What is the name of Montrose’s father, as revealed in Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Captain Lancaster defeated in Chapter 8?

2. According to Caleb at the end of Chapter 7, why did Captain Lancaster curse Horace?

3. What job does Caleb give Ruby in Chapter 5? What does he offer her in return?

4. Why does Atticus laugh at the end of Chapter 8?

5. What is the official cause of Henry Narrow’s death? What suspicious information did David Landsdowne discover, as he tells Montrose in Chapter 6?

6. What was the expression in Ulysses’s eyes as he died? What was the reason for this expression, according to Montrose in Chapter 6?

7. What book does Hippolyta find in the Winthrop House? What is located inside the book, as revealed in Chapter 4?

8. Who is Ruby? Of what crime was she accused at the start of Chapter 5?

9. How is Caleb defeated in Chapter 8? What entity helps in this matter?

10. What is Hippolyta’s dream? What has prevented her from pursuing it, as revealed in Chapter 4?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Atticus experiences great change over the course of the novel. In what ways does he change and in what ways does he remain the same? By the novel’s end, is he better for these changes? What makes you say this? Explain your opinion using examples from the text.

Essay Topic 2

The antagonist of a novel is a character or force who works in opposition to the protagonist. Who is the antagonist of the novel? Caleb Braithwhite? Captain Lancaster? Or perhaps the antagonist is not a person at all? What do you think? Make a case for that which you believe best fits the criteria of an antagonist.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay defining fatherhood from the perspective of Montrose. What does it mean to be a father, according to Montrose? How do the choices he makes reflect these values?

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