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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. Morwenna takes the train where to stay with her Auntie Teg after Christmas?
(a) London.
(b) South Wales.
(c) Bristol.
(d) Paris.

2. Morwenna picks out Christmas gifts with Janine and what other teenager who attends the book club meetings?
(a) Hugh.
(b) Pete.
(c) Sharon.
(d) Owen.

3. Where does Wim express desire to go to a science fiction convention while Morwenna is in the hospital?
(a) South Wales.
(b) Cardiff.
(c) London.
(d) Bristol.

4. What rumors has Wim heard that he confronts Morwenna about while she is in the hospital?
(a) She is moving away.
(b) She killed her sister.
(c) She is bisexual.
(d) She is a witch.

5. What 1961 novel is considered by many to be Robert Heinlein's seminal work?
(a) Farmer in the Sky.
(b) For Us, The Living.
(c) Rocket Ship Galileo.
(d) Stranger in a Strange Land.

Short Answer Questions

1. What final wild place does Morwenna find magic in South Wales during her visit after Christmas?

2. What does everyone show off at school once the holidays end and classes resume?

3. What does Morwenna go to the doctor to get in anticipation of an intimate relationship with Wim?

4. What poem of Jo Walton's is widely quoted on online arguments, often without her name attached?

5. Rumors around town are that Wim did what?

Short Essay Questions

1. When is Morwenna forced into the hospital for her leg pain? What is her treatment there like?

2. How do Wim and Morwenna spend Valentine's Day in the novel? What gifts do they exchange?

3. How does the visit to Poacher's Wood end with Wim? What concerns does Morwenna have about their developing relationship?

4. How does the book club change Morwenna as a character? How does this tie into the novel's themes?

5. In what final place that Morwenna visits in South Wales during the Christmas holidays does she finally encounter magic? What happens?

6. What does Wim discuss with Morwenna when he visits her in the hospital? What does Morwenna admit about her past?

7. How is the theme of growing up explored in Morwenna's encounter with Mor during the Christmas holidays?

8. What is symbolized in the burning of Morwenna's walking stick in the end of the novel?

9. What fairy do Wim and Morwenna encounter at an old castle near the end of the novel? What does the fairy tell them?

10. What strikes Morwenna about Sam when he visits after her release from the hospital?

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