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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Anodos able to find his way to the mainland from the island?
(a) He follows certain marks.
(b) He follows the knight and the white lady.
(c) Something unseen leads him to the mainland.
(d) The woman in the cottage gives him directions.

2. What does Anodos see when he looks into the hole?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The white lady motioning to him.
(c) A natural staircase.
(d) A moving stairway.

3. What happens to the two brothers in the battle with the three giants?
(a) The two brothers hide in the tower.
(b) The two brothers are killed.
(c) The two brothers slay their giants, then help Anodos slay his giant.
(d) The two brothers run to the town for help.

4. When Anodos is reborn as a primrose, who picks it and gives him his first kiss?
(a) The girl who used to have the crystal globe.
(b) His mother.
(c) His sister.
(d) The white lady.

5. Besides the lost love of a woman, what else does Anodos sing about to the two brothers?
(a) The love of a son for his mother.
(b) Sir Percivale and Sir Galahad.
(c) How they will slay the three giants.
(d) The love of a son for his father.

6. After Anodos leaves the king and reaches the edge of a forest, what does a young man warn Anodos about?
(a) The Ash tree.
(b) The king.
(c) The forest is enchanted.
(d) Knights in shining armor.

7. What causes the pain Anodos feels as he vows to protect those he left behind?
(a) His heart is breaking.
(b) Someone is digging him up.
(c) He is still partly alive.
(d) Someone is being buried next to him.

8. How does Anodos make the goblin-like creatures he meets in the hole let him pass?
(a) He tells them the white lady should be with whomever she is meant to be with.
(b) He tells them he will never give up hope of finding the white lady.
(c) He tells them he never loved the white lady.
(d) He recites the magic incantation.

9. In the crimson hall, where does the white lady appear as Anodos sings?
(a) Lying on a marble bench.
(b) In a chair.
(c) On her pedestal.
(d) In an open coffin.

10. After Anodos kills his giant, where does he see the other two giants?
(a) Running away.
(b) Advancing on him.
(c) Lying on the grass.
(d) They have disappeared.

11. What does Anodos think about the ceremony he and the knight are observing that makes Anodos want to get close to the front?
(a) Anodos thinks the ceremony will help the knight.
(b) Anodos thinks the ceremony will help him get home.
(c) Anodos thinks he sees the tale of Sir Percivale and Sir Galahad is being used in the ceremony.
(d) Anodos thinks the ceremony is evil.

12. What does Anodos lose hope of finding as he travels in the hole?
(a) A way to rid himself of the shadow.
(b) A way home.
(c) A way out of the hole.
(d) The white lady.

13. After Anodos and the knight leave the house of the woman who asks about her daughter, what do Anodos and the knight talk about?
(a) The knight's adventures.
(b) The way for Anodos to get home.
(c) Anodos' shadow.
(d) The strange dreams they both have in Fairy Land.

14. What surrounds Anodos' burial site?
(a) White marble figures.
(b) Vines.
(c) Rocks.
(d) Trees and flowers.

15. What happens when Cosmo destroys the mirror?
(a) The Maiden of the Alder appears.
(b) Cosmo dies.
(c) The lady vanishes.
(d) The lady dies.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Anodos communicate his feelings for the white lady to the goblin-like creatures?

2. What happens when the rock walls of the hole close in around Anodos?

3. Who or what accompanies Anodos inside the tower to which the knight leads him?

4. What does Anodos hear the girl, who once had the crystal globe, doing while he is in the tower after his dream of home fades?

5. What happens when the woman in the cottage on the island has to go through a door to find Anodos?

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