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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 is the anomaly Owen sees in the code?

2. The First Magician informs them that the Seventh Key could only be recreated with what?

3. Who formed the Seventh Key?

4. Before Charm and Owen can confront Dr. Verity, he appears to them as what?

5. The Magister chases Bethany through a series of what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the trap that Bethany set for the fictional monsters?

2. What important information does Charm learn in the Original Computer?

3. How has the Magister hurt Kiel? How is Kiel still powerful?

4. What great weapon does Dr. Verity plan to make using the Source of Magic?

5. As Bethany and Kiel are walking through the town, what do they see appearing up on a hill?

6. After Dr. Verity blows up Charm's ship, what happens to Owen and Charm?

7. Why do Owen and Charm have to visit the Original Computer?

8. What two objects does Charm give Owen?

9. Where has the Magister hidden Jonathan Porterhouse? What is ironic about this?

10. According to the Magister, what happens at the end of the last Kiel Gnomenfoot book?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze the author’s choice to tell this story by alternating viewpoints of view. How does viewing the events of the novel from both Owen’s viewpoint as well as Bethany’s affect the story? How would the book be different if the reader only experienced one character’s perspective?

Essay Topic 2

Explain how fictional objects and creatures—such as the Everlasting Gobstopper, the Pegasus, and a shrink ray—have powerful effects in the real world. How does each have a positive effect on the characters, and how does each have a negative effect?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze how the novel’s setting(s) influences the novel’s plot.

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