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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What two things Katerina wanted were in the same place?
(a) The Widow's amulets and spellbook.
(b) The Widow's spellbook and binding spell for Bear.
(c) The passengers of the plane and the Widow's amulets.
(d) The passengers of the plane and the Widow's ingredients.

2. How much of the food did the army consume on the first night?
(a) One third of the rations.
(b) Two thirds of the rations.
(c) A third of the rations.
(d) Half the rations.

3. What wasn't Ivan afraid of?
(a) Solitude.
(b) Death.
(c) Bear.
(d) Baba Yaga.

4. What was missing from Katerina's dress that Ivan half expected?
(a) No decorations other than what surrounded the Priest and Katerina's dress.
(b) Both of these.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) Jewels, fake or otherwise.

5. What problem does Ivan have with his dissertation?
(a) He knows how the letters were formed.
(b) Ivan can no longer work on his dissertation, knowing the truth and unable to prove it.
(c) He knows how the language was spoken.
(d) All of these.

6. Where was the plane found?
(a) In the middle of a desert.
(b) In the middle of a dense forest.
(c) In the middle of Moscow.
(d) In the middle of a field.

7. Who is Cousin Marek, truly?
(a) Bear, in human form.
(b) None of these.
(c) Mikola Mozhaiski.
(d) His aunts son.

8. What was the most amazing thing of all about Katerina?
(a) She got along well with Piotr.
(b) She knew where everything Esther wanted was in her kitchen.
(c) She got along quite well with Esther.
(d) She warmed up to Ivan.

9. Why did Katerina think Ivan had listened to her?
(a) She is the princess of Taina.
(b) All of these.
(c) She had commanded him to do so.
(d) She is a beautiful woman.

10. Why did it take Ivan's family so long to leave the first time and not Katerina?
(a) Marek didn't really want Ivan and his family to go.
(b) Both of these.
(c) Marek didn't have as good of contacts in Moscow as he did in Kiev.
(d) Neither of these.

11. What did Ruth sense out of Ivan's parents?
(a) They entertained her only out of duty.
(b) They despised her.
(c) All of these.
(d) They resented her for taking Ivan away.

12. What spell or charm did Esther give to Ivan and Katerina?
(a) A charm to make it impossible to eat food that isn't what it is supposed to be.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) A spell to tell if anyone at the table knows that some of the food is poisoned.
(d) Both of these.

13. What does Ivan figure out will help him defeat Baba Yaga?
(a) His mother's presence in Katerina's world.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Weapons from the modern world.

14. What was the last thing Ivan wondered when Yaga disappeared?
(a) Both of these.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) If Katerina had managed to make it into Yaga's castle and rescue the prisoners.
(d) What language it was that she had spoken.

15. What happens to the plane that Katerina and Ivan were supposed to be on?
(a) It disappears.
(b) It blows up.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) Both of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Baba Yaga hiding on the plane?

2. What did Ivan figure was the only merciful thing he could do for Katerina?

3. What doesn't Esther do?

4. What do people say about Baba Yaga's new house?

5. Why is Katerina angry at Ivan's offering?

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