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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. Why do the humans burn Janet at the stake?
(a) For killing a priest.
(b) For cursing God.
(c) For being pregnant by a human.
(d) For not accepting Christianity.

2. Where do Mona and Mary Jane take a boat?
(a) To Mary Jane's grandmother's home.
(b) To the middle of the Gulf of Mexico.
(c) Through the Panama Canel to California.
(d) To England.

3. What does Ash's group of Taltos do when they come to live among the humans?
(a) Keep their appearance altered magically.
(b) Nothing different.
(c) Try to marry into the human race.
(d) Invent human identities.

4. Why was childbirth serious among the Taltos?
(a) It involved pain.
(b) It could create an insane child.
(c) It took weeks of labor.
(d) It was considered a sacred act.

5. What does Ash propose to Rowan?
(a) To mate with Mary Jane.
(b) An affair.
(c) To help her find Mona.
(d) To help them with magic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose daughter did Rowan kill?

2. How does Ash respond to Rowan's revelations?

3. What occasionally created problems for the Taltos when they were in their "paradise"?

4. What does Mona confide in about to Mary Jane?

5. With whom does Ash leave the Taltos paradise?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ash hear about Christianity and how does he feel about that religion?

2. Where did Ash's group of Taltos eventually settle and how was their life? For what were the circle of stones used? What was one of the differences between Taltos babies in their new location as opposed to their old one?

3. What do Michael and Yuri talk about on the phone?

4. What does Mona tell Mary Jane about her baby and what do they decide to do?

5. How does Ash begin the story of the Taltos?

6. How did Taltos couple and what kind of romantic relationships did they have?

7. What is Morrigan doing while Doctor Jack is there and how does he meet her? What is he told about Morrigan?

8. What does Doctor Jack insist upon and what information do they give him?

9. What does Ash say about how the Taltos first lived peaceably with humans?

10. What was happening in some of the Taltos villages in relation to humans and how does Ash and his people respond to the happenings?

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