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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is illustrated in Chapter Ten?
(a) A goat curled up with a girl.
(b) A goat headbutting a monk.
(c) A mermaid hairbrush.
(d) A shorn-headed girl.

2. Chapter Six begins with which of the following?
(a) “Brother Edik’s problems were compounded.”
(b) “In those moments when she was awake, she remembered.”
(c) “What she saw when she awoke was sunlight streaming through one small window that was up very high.”
(d) “Brother Edik’s task in the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing was to illuminate.”

3. In Chapter Eight, which of the following names does Beatryce posit for Answelica before learning the goat’s true name?
(a) Lesslich.
(b) Heimlich.
(c) Morelich.
(d) Morehouse.

4. What color are the wings of the angel the soldier lying abed in Jack’s village sees?
(a) Gold.
(b) Black.
(c) White.
(d) Red.

5. Chapter Two begins with which of the following?
(a) “She dreamed.”
(b) “Answelica stood next to the child in a ferocious, protective pose.”
(c) “A child. Next to the goat.”
(d) “All of this took place during a time of war.”

Short Answer Questions

1. To which town had Jack and his family been fleeing?

2. What are Beatryce’s first words to Jack?

3. Which of the following is the name of one of Beatryce’s brothers?

4. Chapter Five begins with which of the following?

5. Chapter Nineteen begins with which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the king and the counselor discuss in their interlude in Chapter Six?

2. What reason does Jack give for not wanting to know a secret in Chapter Fifteen?

3. What story does Beatryce promise to tell of Edik’s mermaid?

4. In Chapter Eight, how does Edik describe the Chronicles of Sorrowing?

5. What reason does Edik give for having been in a field with Answelica early in Chapter Three?

6. In Chapter Fifteen, what reasons does the soldier give for wishing to be a bag of vegetables?

7. At the end of Chapter Five, what does Beatryce think?

8. In Chapter Five, how does Beatryce describe the seahorse?

9. At the beginning of Chapter Fourteen, what sobriquets does Bibspeak apply to Jack?

10. What reason does the royal search party give to Jack for pursuing Beatryce?

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