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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the Sister of the Star that stands on the Grand Elder's left in Chapter 34?
(a) Mary.
(b) Lillienz.
(c) Anna.
(d) Sarah.

2. What phrase does Luna utter to make her grandmother transform in Chapter 43?
(a) "Return to who you are" (348).
(b) "Come back to me" (348).
(c) "Show yourself" (348).
(d) "Xan, Xan, Xan" (348).

3. Whom does Fyrian refer to as delicate in the end of Chapter 45?
(a) Antain.
(b) Ethyne.
(c) Glerk.
(d) Luna.

4. What colleague did Zosimos warn the other scholars about when he took guardianship of Xan?
(a) The Sorrow Eater.
(b) The Grand Elder.
(c) The Black Wizard.
(d) The White Witch.

5. What is the title of Chapter 32?
(a) "In Which It Was Just a Dream."
(b) "In Which Luna Finds a Paper Bird. Several of Them, Actually."
(c) "In Which a Magical Child Is More Trouble by Half."
(d) "The Witch of Washington Avenue."

6. What is the title of Chapter 44?
(a) "The Princess of Pacific Street."
(b) "In Which It Was Just a Dream."
(c) "In Which There Is a Change of Heart."
(d) "The Queen of the Bog."

7. What are the arrival of Luna's memories compared with in Chapter 43?
(a) A shipwreck.
(b) An oak tree.
(c) Moonlight.
(d) Asteroids.

8. What does the narrator describe slithering up and around the madwoman's neck in Chapter 31?
(a) Her desire for revenge.
(b) The ache of grief.
(c) The memories of the past.
(d) The voices of the Sisters.

9. What does the narrator say the madwoman turned her bed into for a time in Chapter 26?
(a) A boat.
(b) A cat.
(c) A dog.
(d) A bird.

10. What sustenance keeps Sister Ignatia alive?
(a) Love.
(b) Rage.
(c) Sorrow.
(d) Desire.

11. What is described as "the most funamental - and yet least understood - element of the known universe" (210) in the book that Luna discovers in Chapter 25?
(a) "Science."
(b) "Money."
(c) "The mind."
(d) "Magic."

12. What creatures attack Sister Ignatia in Chapter 34?
(a) Swamp monsters.
(b) Paper birds.
(c) Eels.
(d) Dragons.

13. What does Glerk say that Fyrian has done for the past 500 years in Chapter 39?
(a) Aged considerably.
(b) Grown larger and larger.
(c) Retained his babyhood.
(d) Grown smaller and smaller.

14. What is written at the bottom of the drawing of the woman in the tower with the bird in Chapter 31?
(a) "Go West" 252).
(b) "She is here" (252).
(c) "Never forget" (252).
(d) "I mean it" (252).

15. What does the narrator say the volcano once had in it in Chapter 29?
(a) Zombies.
(b) Snakes.
(c) Vampires.
(d) Dragons.

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon what is the madwoman flying on the backs of in Chapter 31?

2. From what kind of bird are the feathers that the narrator describes the madwoman sitting among in Chapter 26?

3. What food does Antain eat and offer to Xan in Chapter 37?

4. What are Glerk's thoughts on violence, according to the narrator in Chapter 45?

5. What is the name of the Sister of the Star that stands on the Grand Elder's right in Chapter 34?

(see the answer keys)

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