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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Whose poem at school ends up being chosen among the best hundred in the national poetry competition?
(a) Anna's.
(b) Deirdre's.
(c) Sharon's.
(d) Sarah's.

3. What kind of factory has apparently ruined the surrounding area with a foul smell and a blight in the beginning of the novel?
(a) A muffin factory.
(b) A sports equipment factory.
(c) A Phurnacite factory.
(d) A chemical factory.

4. Morwenna steps outside the story early in the novel to inform the reader that he or she should read the book as a memoir written by whom?
(a) A child.
(b) A drunkard.
(c) A prestigious clergyman.
(d) An unreliable and disreputable person.

5. Who does Sam encourage Morwenna to read?
(a) Huxley.
(b) Plato.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Aristotle.

6. Where does Morwenna flee from in 1979?
(a) Cardiff.
(b) South Wales.
(c) London.
(d) South Scotland.

7. What is the name of Morwenna's twin sister?
(a) Liz.
(b) Deirdre.
(c) Mor.
(d) Sharon.

8. 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?
(a) That she likes boys.
(b) That she is married.
(c) That she loves her.
(d) That she is dying.

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

10. Who appears to Morwenna in spectral form, hovering over her bed and literally paralyzing her?
(a) Mor.
(b) Auntie Gwennie.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her mother.

11. 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?
(a) The factory is tripling production.
(b) The factory is doubling production.
(c) Two more factories are scheduled to open.
(d) The factory is closing.

12. When was the author Ursula Le Guin born?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1895.

13. What sister of her mother's is Morwenna's closest relative?
(a) Auntie Gertrude.
(b) Auntie Maudie.
(c) Auntie Teg.
(d) Auntie Olwen.

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

15. The older woman who leads the first book club meeting Morwenna attends is named what?
(a) Harriet.
(b) Leah.
(c) Janine.
(d) Lorraine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Morwenna's paternal grandfather?

2. What science-minded female friend visits Morwenna and puts her arm around her in a manner Morwenna interprets as sexual?

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

4. What is Morwenna's last name?

5. In the nationwide poetry contest which Morwenna enters at her school, the best hundred poem writers will receive what object?

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