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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Granny and Smith bury the wizard in the family orchard, what grows in his place?
(a) A pineapple.
(b) A fig.
(c) An apple tree.
(d) A lion.

2. After Gulta becomes an animal, who agrees with Esk that her brother is more fitting as an animal?
(a) Granny.
(b) Cern.
(c) Her father.
(d) Archchancellor.

3. What did Granny do in her youth that she found more difficult to do as she got older?
(a) Enter the minds of animals.
(b) Change into a serpent.
(c) Enter a tree.
(d) Become a wolf.

4. What does the Zoon family agree to keep Esk on board in return for?
(a) Teaching them how to control the minds of animals.
(b) Doing magic.
(c) Teaching them alchemy.
(d) Doing chores.

5. What is headology?
(a) The worship of heads.
(b) When people see the hat and cloak, they assume her magic will work.
(c) The study of heads.
(d) Wearing scarves around the head.

6. When Granny wakes up in her house, what does she find is too strong for her to locate Esk?
(a) Pollution.
(b) Destruction.
(c) Wolves' pack mind.
(d) Noise.

7. Whom does Granny write a letter to at the Unseen University?
(a) Head Wizard.
(b) Sorcerer.
(c) Mrs. Winthrop.
(d) Duke.

8. When Granny recovers Esk and takes her home, whom/what does she turn to for advice?
(a) An owl.
(b) Smith.
(c) A magic apple tree.
(d) The staff.

9. What does Granny Weatherwax think should be burned because female wizards are not right?
(a) A hat.
(b) A staff.
(c) Shoes.
(d) A pot.

10. What can the eighth son of an eighth son become?
(a) A duke.
(b) A dancer.
(c) A lord.
(d) A wizard.

11. What does Esk learn to make with Granny in the spring, taking a practical course instead of learning magic?
(a) Dressings.
(b) Food.
(c) Lotions.
(d) Ointments, infusions, and potions.

12. What role did Granny assume when she "borrows" another's mind?
(a) That of an evil medium doing a midnight séance.
(b) That of a magician.
(c) That of a crow.
(d) That of a predator swooping down on prey.

13. What does Pratchett describe that normally prevents wolves from eating humans in the first section of the book?
(a) Magic stones.
(b) Natural selection.
(c) Laser beams.
(d) Barbed wire.

14. What does the visiting wizard at the beginning of the book see before he dies?
(a) That the newborn is crippled.
(b) That the newborn is a boy.
(c) That the newborn is a girl.
(d) That the newborn is a screamer.

15. When Granny locks her cottage and takes Esk with her, what is the name of the nearby metropolis that they visit?
(a) Discworld.
(b) Ohulan Cutash.
(c) Ankh Morph.
(d) Kailash.

Short Answer Questions

1. While Esk does chores for Granny at her house, what does she also become good at?

2. When Esk leaves in the body of the animal, what does Granny carry back to her house to wait?

3. What do the woods surrounding Granny Weatherwax's house contain?

4. Who/What flies through space on four giant elephants atop a massive star turtle?

5. When you enter a creature's mind, what is difficult upon exiting?

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