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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. What is the answer to the clue Ethan puts in the crossword puzzle: “As in, endless, without stopping, forever. The way you feel about a certain girl, whether you’re dead or alive” in Chapter 9: "Stars and Stripes"?
(a) Vast
(b) Hoping
(c) Eternal
(d) Lost

2. What is Ethan’s middle name?
(a) Lawson
(b) Marshall
(c) Leighton
(d) Crawford

3. What is the answer to the clue Ethan puts in the crossword puzzle: “As in, as hard as I can, every minute of every day” in Chapter 9: "Stars and Stripes"?
(a) Help
(b) Work
(c) Try
(d) Love

4. What are draped over the windows and mirrors of Ravenwood Manor in Chapter 6: "Silver Button"?
(a) White sheets
(b) Black sheets
(c) Winter blankets
(d) Gold sheets

5. Who is described in Chapter 3: "This Side or the Next" as being neither “Light or Dark, right or wrong. She was truth and balance in their purest forms”?
(a) The Lilum
(b) Genevieve
(c) Sarafine
(d) Marian

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the answer to the clue Ethan puts in the crossword puzzle for six down: “As in, parochial. Local. Insular. The place we’re stuck, whether in the Otherworld or the Mortal one” in Chapter 9: "Stars and Stripes"?

2. What are stacked in the middle of Lena’s room in Chapter 6: "Silver Button"?

3. What card does Ethan refer to as his card in Chapter 8: "Broken Bottles"?

4. At the newspaper office, Ethan and his mother read in the papers that “the Ladies Auxiliary of Gatlin County is starting a book club called” what, in Chapter 9: "Stars and Stripes"?

5. What book does Ethan describe reading that is about a man who voyages into the nine circles of Hell in Chapter 1: "Home"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Ethan’s first message that he sends to Lena in Chapter 9: "Stars and Stripes"?

2. Where is Ethan when he awakens in the opening of Chapter 1: "Home"? What does he realize about his situation?

3. How does Ethan's mother feel about her son's journey in Chapter 14: "Messed-Up Things"?

4. What plot does Ethan instigate in order to send messages to Lena in Chapter 9: "Stars and Stripes"?

5. Who among the Mortals in Gatlin is unaware of Ethan’s death in the beginning of the novel? How has Ethan’s death remained hidden?

6. How is the Otherworld arranged in terms of where the inhabitants exist? How are the houses described?

7. What does Ethan witness when he first sees Lena in the Mortal world of Gatlin in Chapter 6: "Silver Button"? How does he communicate with her?

8. How does Ethan respond when he learns that Obidias wrote his page in The Caster Chronicles?

9. What conflict takes place between Lila Wate and Aunt Prue in the beginning of Chapter 10: “Snake Eyes”?

10. What does Obidias tell Ethan he will need in order to get to The Caster Chronicles?

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