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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. Who is Boggart?

2. What does Marcia do when she sees the Hunter coming?

3. Where does the ring lead him?

4. What does Boggart warn them about?

5. Who was the apprentice to Alther Mello?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Alther discover when he leaves Silas and the canoes and goes to Marcia's apartment in the Wizard's Tower?

2. On what day does information of the Princess emerge? What is the bearer of this news asked to do, and when?

3. What story had Jenna and her best friend Bo often told each other, and what had Jenna said that upset Bo?

4. Why does Silas go into the forest, and what does he return with? What does he sense on the way back?

5. Who usually gets Boy 412 out of bed and how?

6. What does Jenna tell Boy 412 after he reveals the ring he found to her?

7. How does Marcia manage to save the Muriel and her passengers from the Hunter and his men?

8. What did Alther learn from DomDaniel and become so adept at that he taught Marcia, who now uses it against DomDaniel?

9. How does Marcia learn that the Heaps are in danger? Who is particularly in trouble, and what does Marcia recommend?

10. Why is Marcia reasonably certain that Sally will be safe?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why doesn't Silas return with Marcia's SafeKeeping? Where does he get stopped and why? What are the circumstances of his incarceration? Who visits him regularly? Why is Silas unshackled? Why does Silas waffle when he discovers the unlocked door?

Essay Topic 2

How do Marcia, Silas, Jenna, Boy 412, and Nicko escape from the Hunter when he almost catches them on the way to Deppen Ditch? Who almost ruins their escape, how, and why? Who does Aunt Zelda send to help them find their way to the cottage? How are his intentions almost mistaken?

Essay Topic 3

How does Aunt Zelda manage to heal DomDaniel's apprentice? What risk does she take, instinctively knowing there is no alternative? What does Aunt Zelda do before the apprentice wakes up to help him?

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