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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Dee collected that are at Alcatraz?

2. What is the Crow Goddess' attitude towards Alcatraz?

3. What does Josh's mind automatically recall?

4. What is wrong with King Gilagamesh?

5. What does Machiavelli decide to do to the monsters at Alcatraz?

Short Essay Questions

1. What most upsets Machiavelli about Perenelle taking their boat?

2. What is the difference between Niccolo's ambitions concerning the Elders and that of Dee and Flamel?

3. What does Sophie tell Nicholas she wants to do and why does he say it is impossible?

4. How does Shakespeare help Nicohlas and the others get to Stonehenge?

5. Describe how King Gilgamesh ends up in the car with Nicholas and the others.

6. Who picks up Dee at the airport and what does she tell him?

7. What do Scathach and Perenelle talk about and what do they decide?

8. What does the young man in a green parka do at the train station?

9. How does Josh observe the power of water and what happens as he watches the continents flood?

10. How does Machiavelli keep tabs on Nicholas' group and where does he figure they are going?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Sorceress belongs to the fantasy genre. Discuss the following:

1. Define the literary term "genre" and give several examples of three other genres in addition to the fantasy genre.

2. Discuss two reasons why it might be useful to label a text by genre and two reasons it might be disadvantageous to label a text by genre.

3. What do you think is the difference between a fantasy and a historical novel mystery?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the following:

1. Who is/are the protagonists of the story and why?

2. Who is/are the antagonists of the story and why?

3. Which 3 secondary characters have the greatest impact on the plot?

4. Are any of the characters dispensable and which ones? Why or why not?

5. Do you think this is a character-driven plot or an action-driven plot? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

Whenever reading a science fiction or fantasy novel, one must become familiar with new terminology that explains concepts or ideas that are not a part of the "real" world. In the case of The Sorceress, much of the setting may seem familiar to the reader (i.e. there are woods, mountains, rivers, oceans, etc), though there are new ideas and terms to learn. Discuss the following:

1. Find five terms that are a part of the world of The Sorceress that occur in the "real" world but are used differently in The Sorceress.

2. Define the words as used in in The Sorceress world and compare those five words as to how they are currently used in the American English language.

3. There are ways of learning about a new world or time when reading a science fiction or fantasy novel. Discuss the ways you were able to understand the world of The Sorceress. Did you have to look up any words? What does it mean to learn a word through its context? Do you have to do that in The Sorceress? What word(s)?

4. Were there any words you never really understood from The Sorceress? Which ones?

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