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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “Family Reunion,” “The Claiming,” and “Silver Lining”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lena learns in “Family Reunion” that if she chooses to be a Dark Caster at her Claiming, what will happen?
(a) All of her family members will die.
(b) All the Light Casters in her family will die.
(c) Ethan will die.
(d) All the Dark Casters in her family will die.

2. The chapter title “Marian the Librarian” is a literary allusion to what musical?
(a) Avenue Q.
(b) Guys and Dolls.
(c) Cats.
(d) The Music Man.

3. On what date does “Gathering Days” begin?
(a) October 9.
(b) October 12.
(c) September 14.
(d) February 11.

4. What do the older members of Ethan’s community refer to the Civil War as?
(a) The War of Southern Aggression.
(b) The War of Union Soldiers.
(c) The War of Northern Aggression.
(d) The War of the Deserters.

5. What is the name of the song that Ethan discovers on his iPod after his recurring dream in “Dream On”?
(a) "Seventeen Suns."
(b) “Seventeen Moons.”
(c) "Sixteen Stars."
(d) “Sixteen Moons.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the town where Ethan lives in the novel?

2. In “Silver Lining,” the narrator says, “I looked at my cell. It was broken. The time still read” what?

3. “White Christmas” begins on what date?

4. The curse that befalls Genevieve’s family dictates that every one of her descendants will be what on the night of their sixteenth birthdays?

5. At the public hearing in “When the Saints Go Marching In,” Mrs. Lincoln claims that Lena was where prior to her arrival at Gatlin?

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