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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. Why does Despair refuse to help find Destruction?
(a) She hates him.
(b) He asked to be left alone.
(c) He was never kind to her.
(d) She has no hope of finding him.

2. Where does Dream have to travel to find Destruction?
(a) The void.
(b) The real world.
(c) The dream land.
(d) The waste place.

3. What does the first woman Dream talks to do for him and Delirium?
(a) Drives them around.
(b) Takes them to a hotel.
(c) Buys them appropriate clothing.
(d) Gives them a map.

4. Who warns Dream about trying to find Destruction?
(a) Cain.
(b) Lucien.
(c) Desire.
(d) Phlegm.

5. Where was the last place Despair saw Destruction?
(a) New York.
(b) London.
(c) Greece.
(d) Paris.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Alderman watching when he first appears in the book?

2. What is Lucien's occupation in the Dreaming?

3. What is the Alderman checking when he first appears in the book?

4. How did Bernie's family think of him?

5. What just ended before this book began?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ruby die?

2. Who took the absence of Destruction the hardest, and why?

3. Why did Dream's rescue of Nada not make her love him?

4. What are Destruction and Barnabas doing when we first see them?

5. Why does Dream tell Delirium he is willing to help her?

6. Where did Dream rescue Nada from?

7. What is happening at the back room of Destruction's house, and what is this supposed to mean?

8. What does Dream do at the beginning of the book, and why?

9. What does Destruction say will end his age on earth?

10. What has Nada chosen to do at the beginning of the book, and why?

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