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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What science-minded female friend visits Morwenna and puts her arm around her in a manner Morwenna interprets as sexual?
(a) Gill.
(b) Lorraine.
(c) Sharon.
(d) Deirdre.

2. Who suggests Morwenna join the library's science fiction book club in the novel?
(a) Miss Carroll.
(b) The librarian.
(c) Daniel.
(d) Sam.

3. Morwenna spends a journal entry explaining that she is mad at whom about her sister's death?
(a) God.
(b) Mor.
(c) Uncle Clem.
(d) Daniel.

4. Morwenna's disability makes it necessary for her to use what?
(a) A seeing-eye dog.
(b) A cane.
(c) A back brace.
(d) A wheelchair.

5. In the nationwide poetry contest which Morwenna enters at her school, the best hundred poem writers will receive how much money?
(a) 30 pounds.
(b) 20 pounds.
(c) 50 pounds.
(d) 100 pounds.

6. Who is the protagonist of "The Hobbit"?
(a) Harry Potter.
(b) Hans Solo.
(c) Bilbo Baggins.
(d) Golam.

7. Glorfindel appears in human form to be about how old?
(a) 14.
(b) 22.
(c) 19.
(d) 16.

8. What book does Sam give to Morwenna on her first visit?
(a) The Bible.
(b) The Odyssey.
(c) The Iliad.
(d) The Symposium.

9. Morwenna's great-grandfather was what?
(a) A banker.
(b) A lawyer.
(c) A policeman.
(d) A miner.

10. Glorfindel instructs Morwenna that she must travel to a ruin and gather what for a ritual there?
(a) Maple syrup.
(b) Oak leaves.
(c) Smooth rocks.
(d) Deer blood.

11. What relative of Morwenna's "disgraced herself by marrying a Catholic"?
(a) Auntie Olwen.
(b) Auntie Maudie.
(c) Auntie Gertrude.
(d) Auntie Teg.

12. What does Morwenna see dancing in the flames when Arlinghurst school has a bonfire?
(a) Fire fairies.
(b) Combustion owls.
(c) Burn goblins.
(d) Ember monkeys.

13. Morwenna named the fairy Glorfindel after a character in what novels?
(a) The Hardy Boys.
(b) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
(c) Foundation.
(d) The Lord of the Rings.

14. What does Morwenna continue to do with her mother's letters in order to keep her evil power away?
(a) Run them through a paper shredder.
(b) Hide them in a dark closet.
(c) Flush them down the toilet.
(d) Burn them.

15. What is the name of the town in which a factory has ruined the surrounding area with a foul smell and a blight in the beginning of "Among Others"?
(a) Abercwmboi.
(b) Emgronica.
(c) Idglingkot.
(d) Oberswernct.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Morwenna and her sister perform their ritual at the factory in the beginning of the novel, the headlines of papers the next day say what?

2. When a science-minded female friend visits Morwenna and puts her arm around her in a manner Morwenna interprets as sexual, she struggles to find a way to express what?

3. What is the name of Morwenna's mother?

4. When was "The Hobbit" published?

5. Who slips into Morwenna's bed and tries to kiss her at the hotel after visiting Sam in the novel?

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