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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. What is the name of the prestigious boarding school Morwenna attends?
(a) Oak Knoll.
(b) Arlingdale.
(c) Arlinghurst.
(d) Regaldale.

2. What is the name of Morwenna's paternal grandfather?
(a) Sam.
(b) Hugh.
(c) Daniel.
(d) Owen.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Morwenna go to burn in a bonfire in the countryside in the third section of the novel?

2. Glorfindel appears in human form to be about how old?

3. Who does Morwenna see in the procession of the dead during the ritual she performs alongside Glorfindel?

4. Whose poem at school ends up being chosen among the best hundred in the national poetry competition?

5. What kind of factory has apparently ruined the surrounding area with a foul smell and a blight in the beginning of the novel?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Where does Morwenna perform a ritual alongside Glorfindel? What actions does she take in the ritual?

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

10. Describe the first letter Morwenna receives from her mother at Arlilnghurst. Why does Morwenna treasure the letter?

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