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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does Ash compare the birth of a Taltos child?
(a) The birth of Jesus.
(b) The birth of a galaxy.
(c) The creation story of the Hindu.
(d) The creation story of the Jews.

2. What rumor about Taltos blood circulates among the witches?
(a) That the Taltos must drink the blood of its mate in order to reproduce.
(b) That if the Taltos lose more than a drop or two of blood, s/he will die.
(c) That one drop of the Taltos blood will kill a human.
(d) That a witch who drinks Taltos blood becomes immortal.

3. How do Rowan and Michael get back to the United States?
(a) They teleport themselves.
(b) They do not return to the States yet.
(c) In Ash's plane.
(d) In Yuris' lear jet.

4. What happens in the storm?
(a) The electricity goes off.
(b) A shutter flies loose and breaks a window.
(c) The water surges under the front door.
(d) Lightening hits a tree and starts a fire.

5. Whose church becomes very popular with the humans?
(a) The priest who converts the Taltos.
(b) Ash.
(c) Beler.
(d) Lasher.

6. What is something that would clue humans in to the fact that the Taltos are not human?
(a) The way the Taltos can regenerate body parts.
(b) The birth ritual.
(c) The Taltos' hair colors.
(d) The Taltos' eye colors.

7. What does Mona ask Morrigan at the opening to Chapter Twenty?
(a) If Morrigan is afraid.
(b) If Morrigan is Taltos.
(c) If Morrigan wants to be born.
(d) If they should share their ice cream with Mary Jane.

8. Who is the leader of the Taltos after they left the island?
(a) Ash's brother.
(b) No one.
(c) Ash's father.
(d) Ash.

9. What do Taltos do when they go "wild"?
(a) They go berserk and kill whoever they meet.
(b) They kill themselves.
(c) They live away from all human and Taltos contact.
(d) They mate indiscriminately.

10. How many Taltos are alive after the battle with the villagers?
(a) 5.
(b) 18.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

11. Why was childbirth serious among the Taltos?
(a) It could create an insane child.
(b) It involved pain.
(c) It was considered a sacred act.
(d) It took weeks of labor.

12. What did Lasher reveal to Michael?
(a) Rowan's cruel treatment of Lasher.
(b) Ash's genealogy.
(c) Mona's pregnancy.
(d) A history of Lasher's life from the 1500's.

13. What can witches recognize on sight concerning the Taltos?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Whether the female Taltos is pregnant with a human child.
(c) Whether the male Taltos is able to have children since most of them cannot.
(d) That a person is a Taltos.

14. Who begins screaming?
(a) Mona.
(b) The young woman typing.
(c) The young woman using the sewing machine.
(d) Mary Jane.

15. Who does Mary Jane say Morrigan is in relation to the baby Mary Jane is holding?
(a) The baby's older sister.
(b) The baby's aunt.
(c) The baby's great aunt.
(d) No relation.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ash respond to Rowan's revelations?

2. What is in the envelope Mary Jane gives the doctor?

3. Why is Mona having trouble walking?

4. What does Mona keep telling Morrigan?

5. What is the clacking noise the doctor hears as he is preparing to leave?

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