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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 swarms around the grounds of Madame Weatherberry's school?

2. In Chapter 14, what does Madame Weatherberry say her sick friend's name is?

3. In Chapter 15, what does Lucy suggest the students do when Madame Weatherberry is away?

4. In Chapter 11, which student does not perform the spell Mrs. Weatherberry asks of the students during their first lesson?

5. In Chapter 13, who saves Brystal and Lucy in the In-Between?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 9, why is Emerelda resentful about going with Madame Weatherberry?

2. In Chapter 15, what does Lucy suggest instead of reading children's stories at night?

3. In Chapter 13, who saves Lucy and Brystal from the witch hunters and how does the person save them?

4. In Chapter 12, who comes to see Madame Weatherberry as s surprise visit, and how do the students feel about the visitors?

5. In Chapter 11, what does Madame Weatherberry give Brystal to help direct and hone her magic?

6. In Chapter 9, how do Tangerina and Skylene greet the new students at the magic academy?

7. In Chapter 15, what is Xanthous's deepest secret and how do the others react to it?

8. In Chapter 10, what does Brystal learn about Lucy from eavesdropping on the conversation in Madame Weatherberry's office?

9. In Chapter 14, why does Brystal make Lucy read the two incantations to discover definitively whether or not she is a witch?

10. In Chapter 11, what amazes Madame Weatherberry about Brystal's light on her map?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does the Bootstrap Correctional Facility, and the couple who run it, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar, symbolize about the society Brystal lives in? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

How do the High Justices, people like the Edgars, and the leaders of the four kingdoms all deliberately benefit from society's fear of magical creatures, and of differences in general? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

How does Brystal repeatedly diffuse tensions, jealousies, competitions, and pettiness between her classmates at Madame Weatherberry's school? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

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