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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Auntie Teg live?
(a) Cardiff.
(b) South Wales.
(c) London.
(d) Bristol.

3. What must Morwenna have in order to get a card at the town library?
(a) Five pounds.
(b) An interest in books.
(c) A drivers license.
(d) A note signed by the school and a parent.

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

5. What is the name of the red-headed girl Morwenna's age who she meets at her first book club meeting?
(a) Deirdre.
(b) Anthea.
(c) Janine.
(d) Lorraine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the blond-haired handsome boy in the book club that Morwenna has a crush on?

2. How old is Morwenna in 1979?

3. Who does Morwenna not receive a permission slip from in time to leave the school and attend the library's book club after she first decides to join?

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?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to make Morwenna feel that her ritual for a karass worked favorably? What is a karass?

2. How does Morwenna continue to destroy her mother's letters which keep arriving at Arlinghurst? What temptation do the letters represent?

3. What happens when Morwenna first goes to burn her mother's letters at Arlinghurst?

4. What does the reader discern of Morwenna's character through her descriptions of her ancestors?

5. Why has Morwenna traveled with her sister to the factory in the opening of the novel?

6. How is the character of Morwenna illustrated in "Among Others"? In what ways does she relate to the novel's author?

7. How does Morwenna relate her feelings about religion in the fourth section of the novel?

8. How is the character of Wim introduced in the novel? What mystery surrounds Wim?

9. In what ways are characters revealed in literature? How does this relate to the character of Wim?

10. Describe the narrative style of "Among Others". In what format are the events of the novel retold?

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