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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 Irish girl that Morwenna befriends at school?
(a) Deirdre.
(b) Sharon.
(c) Gill.
(d) Liz.

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

3. How old is Morwenna in 1979?
(a) 20.
(b) 11.
(c) 15.
(d) 8.

4. What is the name of Morwenna's mother?
(a) Mor.
(b) Deirdre.
(c) Liz.
(d) Sharon.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Daniel take Morwenna to meet Sam during the school break?

2. In the nationwide poetry contest which Morwenna enters at her school, the best hundred poem writers will receive how much money?

3. What is Morwenna's true love in the novel?

4. Glorfindel instructs Morwenna that she must travel to a ruin and gather what for a ritual there?

5. When was "The Hobbit" published?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Morwenna conflicted about her eccentricities in the novel? How is this illustrated at Arlinghurst?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What is the dominant passion that Morwenna has in the novel? How does this passion affect her character?

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

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

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