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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. How old is Morwenna in 1975?
(a) 7.
(b) 3.
(c) 13.
(d) 10.

2. 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 prestigious clergyman.
(b) A child.
(c) An unreliable and disreputable person.
(d) A drunkard.

3. What language did the fairies Morwenna befriended in her early years speak?
(a) Sanskrit.
(b) Spanish.
(c) Welsh.
(d) Gaelic.

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

5. Whose image has been burned out of the photograph that Morwenna's mother sends her after she arrives at the boarding school?
(a) Sharon's
(b) Liz's.
(c) Morwenna's.
(d) Mor's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Morwenna flee to in 1979?

2. Who suggests Morwenna join the library's science fiction book club in the novel?

3. What relative of Morwenna's "disgraced herself by marrying a Catholic"?

4. 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?

5. Who appears to Morwenna in spectral form, hovering over her bed and literally paralyzing her?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what ways is the thematic metaphor with the factory in the beginning of the novel reiterated at Arlinghurst?

2. How is magic uses metaphorically by the author in the fifth section of the novel?

3. Who does Morwenna strike up a friendship with from the book club? Where do they first meet outside of the library?

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

5. What metaphor is set up in the opening of the novel with Morwenna at the factory?

6. Who is the narrator of "Among Others"? Where is she going in the opening entry?

7. What unanswered questions does the author set up in the first entries of the novel? Why?

8. How does Morwenna describe the fairies of Wales in the novel?

9. What occupies Morwenna's attention in the weeks after the Arlinghurst bonfire?

10. What does Morwenna's leg injury represent metaphorically in the novel?

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