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

2. What does Morwenna continue to do with her mother's letters in order to keep her evil power away?
(a) Run them through a paper shredder.
(b) Burn them.
(c) Hide them in a dark closet.
(d) Flush them down the toilet.

3. At her first book club meeting, Morwenna is disappointed that most of the attendees are what?
(a) Younger than 25.
(b) Younger than 5.
(c) Older than 30.
(d) Older than 70.

4. In the nationwide poetry contest which Morwenna enters at her school, the best hundred poem writers will receive how much money?
(a) 50 pounds.
(b) 30 pounds.
(c) 100 pounds.
(d) 20 pounds.

5. Morwenna's great-grandfather had dark skin due to what ancestry?
(a) Indian.
(b) Norwegian.
(c) Asian.
(d) African.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do Morwenna and her sister intend to throw into a pool at the heart of the factory in the beginning of the novel?

3. What is the name of the Irish girl that Morwenna befriends at school?

4. What relative of Morwenna's does she say was disgraced for being a lesbian?

5. What does Janine help Morwenna pick out when they first go shopping?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Where does Morwenna plan on going to visit during the break in the school term?

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

7. What does the appearance of Mor in Morwenna's ritual represent metaphorically?

8. What incident at school leads Morwenna to refer to her mother as a witch? Why?

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

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

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