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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 jockish girl sees one of Morwenna's photos from her mother and asks her about it, leading Morwenna to respond that her mother is a vindictive witch?
(a) Sharon.
(b) Lorraine.
(c) Gill.
(d) Harriet.

2. Who does Sam encourage Morwenna to read?
(a) Plato.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Huxley.
(d) Aristotle.

3. Who is Morwenna's maternal grandfather?
(a) Grandpa Sam.
(b) Grampar.
(c) Pappy.
(d) Hugh.

4. 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?
(a) Daniel.
(b) Miss Carroll.
(c) Uncle Clem.
(d) Liz.

5. Who does Morwenna write a poem for in the nationwide poetry contest which is held at her school?
(a) Harriet.
(b) Liz.
(c) Deirdre.
(d) Janine.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Hugo awards has Ursula Le Guin won?

2. Who slips into Morwenna's bed and tries to kiss her at the hotel after visiting Sam in the novel?

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

4. How old is Morwenna in 1975?

5. What cousin does Morwenna say stopped believing in fairies and became interested in football after a certain age?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What objects and effects are a part of the ritual Morwenna does to protect herself from her mother in the fifth section of the novel?

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

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

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

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