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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Morwenna run into at Grampar's nursing home whom she hates because she is on the side of her mother and very rude?
(a) Auntie Teg.
(b) Auntie Gwennie.
(c) Aunt Flossie.
(d) Aunt Anthea.

2. Morwenna takes the train where to stay with her Auntie Teg after Christmas?
(a) London.
(b) South Wales.
(c) Bristol.
(d) Paris.

3. Jo Walton won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in what year?
(a) 1992.
(b) 1995.
(c) 1998.
(d) 2002.

4. Why does Morwenna theorize attitudes have changed at Arlinghurst after her hospitalization?
(a) They thought she was faking her leg injury.
(b) They thought she was poor.
(c) People no longer think she is a witch.
(d) They thought she was rich.

5. Morwenna attends a party put on by what hometown former friend after Christmas?
(a) Wim.
(b) Leah.
(c) Greg.
(d) Harriet.

6. When was Jo Walton born?
(a) 1964.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1957.

7. Where does Wim express desire to go to a science fiction convention while Morwenna is in the hospital?
(a) London.
(b) Cardiff.
(c) Bristol.
(d) South Wales.

8. What does Wim touch at Poacher's Wood that makes him suddenly able to see all the fairies in the glen clearly?
(a) An old tree.
(b) Morwenna's hat.
(c) Morwenna's walking stick.
(d) A large boulder.

9. Sam lost his entire family how?
(a) Earthquake.
(b) Tsunami.
(c) Volcanic eruption.
(d) The Holocaust.

10. What poem of Jo Walton's is widely quoted on online arguments, often without her name attached?
(a) "The Hacker Manifesto."
(b) "The Lurkers Support Me in E-Mail."
(c) "The Laundry of Leaked Information."
(d) "The Tomorrow of Yesterday."

11. At the industrial ruin Morwenna visits at the end of the novel, Glorfindel instructs her to go to another favorite site to perform a ritual that will do what?
(a) Repel the forces of evil.
(b) Raise the dead.
(c) Cause an eclipse.
(d) Make Mor whole again.

12. Glorfindel along with a great many fairies are waiting for Morwenna at an industrial ruin she calls what, in the end of the novel?
(a) Ithilien.
(b) Callahan.
(c) Eden.
(d) Mordor.

13. Since 2001, Samuel Delany has been a professor of English and Creative Writing at what institution?
(a) Oxford University.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) Stanford University.
(d) Temple University.

14. Doing Christmas decorating at Daniel's mansion, the season is dampened by the fact that Russians have invaded what country?
(a) Afghanistan.
(b) The United States.
(c) China.
(d) Vietnam.

15. Morwenna explains that Auntie Teg is having an affair with whom?
(a) A married politician.
(b) A young model.
(c) A train conductor.
(d) An old banker.

Short Answer Questions

1. Morwenna's mother attacks Morwenna by tearing pages from what, at the end of the novel?

2. What does everyone show off at school once the holidays end and classes resume?

3. Where do Morwenna's final marks place her in her class before the Christmas holidays?

4. How does Morwenna say her sister died when talking with Wim at Poacher's Wood?

5. Rumors around town are that Wim did what?

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