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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 believes the ghost is right about what it said the night before?

2. What are the windows near the niche designed to do?

3. Who goes to tell Sophie that Mangus and Fabrizio are fine?

4. Whom does the Queen believe killed Lorenzo?

5. What does Mangus ask about the ghost?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mangus tell Fabrizio on the way back to their rooms? What happens to Fabrizio at the same time?

2. What does the Queen believe about the ghost? What wish does she express to Fabrizio that is fulfilled?

3. What does Fabrizio do in the confusion over the death of Addetto?

4. What does Fabrizio do at Mangus' house?

5. Whom does Fabrizio encounter while people are rushing to the chapel? What does Fabrizio ask?

6. What does Teresina say to Fabrizio when he goes to her chambers?

7. Who leads Mangus and Fabrizio to view the ghost? What happens before the ghost appears?

8. What does Mangus show the Princess and Fabrizio?

9. What does Mangus ask of the King the next day after the incident in the Chapel?

10. When the ghost appears, what does it say?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Teresina admits that she is to marry Count Scarazoni in two days because her father has consulted the stars and that is the best date in the immediate future. Write an essay answering the following questions:

1) Do you believe astrology is a valid way to plan one's day/life?

2) How often do you read your daily astrological prediction? Would you alter your plans based upon the daily chart? Why or why not?

3) If astrology were proven to be true and accurate, do you believe you could change your fate as predicted by the stars? How would you do so?

4) If science proved astrology to absolutely false, would you still read your daily advice from the astrology column in the newspaper? Why or why not? If you do not read the astrology column, why not?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss one of the following:

1) Define irony in literary terms. Discuss the irony of the situation of the King asking Mangus for help using the very same powers for which Mangus was condemned. What other situations contain irony in Midnight Magic?

2) Define symbolism in literary terms. Discuss the use and meaning of five symbols you choose to analyze from Midnight Magic. What do they symbolize? Is the symbolism obvious? Effective? Does the symbolism contribute to the enjoyment of reading?

3) Discuss five literary devices that occur in Midnight Magic and how they are used. Are they effective? Do they add or detract from the reading of the book? Why or why not. Some possible techniques: Allusion, connotation, denouement, dialogue, flashback, figurative language, motif, metaphor, narrator, point of view, simile, mood, and puns.

Essay Topic 3

Sometimes a book is more of a character-driven plot rather than action driven, and vice-versa. Some books seem to balance the two. Discuss the following:

1) What do you think it means to say that a plot is character-driven? Action driven?

2) How do you think a plot differs if it is character-driven versus action driven?

3) Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why?

4) Do you think it is possible to have a plot where action and character development share equal time? Why or why not?

5) Is the plot in Midnight Magic character or action driven? Explain your response.

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