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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Frost receive while he is in the holding cell with Mark that makes him leave in a hurry?
(a) A telepathic warning from Wither.
(b) A package.
(c) A message from the eldil.
(d) A note.

2. What do Jane and Mr. Dimble find as they head away from the vagrant camp?
(a) Merlin.
(b) A map.
(c) Footprints that are not their own.
(d) A path that leads to the well.

3. What feeling does Mark have when Mr. Frost enters the room the police are holding him in?
(a) He feels very afraid.
(b) He feels relieved.
(c) He feels sick.
(d) He feels angry.

4. When Mark wakes up in the banquet hall what does he see?
(a) The Head trying to calm the madness.
(b) The Fairy shooting Jules.
(c) A room full of dead people.
(d) Everything as it should be.

5. What does Mark do after he defeats the urgings of the bad eldil while in the room Frost left him alone in?
(a) He speaks with the eldil.
(b) He repeats the words "I do not belong here" over and over.
(c) He goes to sleep.
(d) He tries desperately to escape.

6. Who is the first person to be killed during the chaos of the banquet?
(a) Frost.
(b) Jules.
(c) The Tramp.
(d) The Fairy.

7. What was MacPhee doing while Ransom was answering Merlin's riddles?
(a) Watching intently.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Reading a book.
(d) Writing down the exchange.

8. What is significant about the fire that Mr. Deniston and Ransom see in the distance while driving to find Merlin?
(a) Jane has dreamed about it.
(b) They believe it is a sign of things to come.
(c) The smoke is blue.
(d) The college is being burned down.

9. How is the Fairy able to give such a detailed report to Frost and Wither about what Mark has been doing in Edgestow?
(a) She has telepathic powers.
(b) She has many agents in the area reporting to her.
(c) She made it all up to impress them.
(d) She followed him.

10. What did Jane dream about the night that Mark saw the Head?
(a) She saw the Fairy trying to kill Mark.
(b) She saw Mr. Ransom taking Mark away from Belbury.
(c) She saw Mark meeting the Head.
(d) She saw Mr. Wither and The Fairy convincing Mark to kill Jane.

11. What does Mark realize will happen to him if he does not comply with all Mr. Wither's demands?
(a) He will never be promoted.
(b) They will not allow him to be part of an exclusive group.
(c) They will kill him.
(d) They will fire him.

12. What change occurs in Mr. Dimble as the search party for Merlin draws nearer to the fire?
(a) He loses all his fear.
(b) He fears that there may not be an afterlife.
(c) He becomes angry with Ransom for sending him here.
(d) All of his sins are brought to his mind.

13. Where does the Fairy tell Mark his wife is as he is writing his letter to Jane?
(a) In the hospital.
(b) In Belbury.
(c) In an insane asylum.
(d) In St. Anne's house.

14. Why does Mark return back to Belbury instead of leaving to get Jane?
(a) He hears that she is back at Belbury.
(b) He is summoned by the Head.
(c) The Fairy offers to fetch her for him.
(d) Mr. Wither meets him in a clearing in the wood and Mark is afraid to tell Wither he is leaving.

15. What do Mr. Frost and Mr. Wither fight about before Mark returns to Belbury in the hands of the police?
(a) The usefulness of Merlin.
(b) The usefulness of the Head.
(c) The usefulness of Jane.
(d) The usefulness of Mark.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Merlin think Ransom and his followers should do to Jane?

2. What does Mark agree to be trained in before Mr. Frost finally releases him and lets him eat?

3. What did the macrobes tell Frost that the fate of human beings is?

4. Where does Lord Feverstone hide to get away from the madness in the banquet room?

5. Who is the man that Jane and Mr. Dimble see on the horse when they search the campground?

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