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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Simon notice about Baz at Christmas Eve dinner?
(a) There is almost nothing on his plate.
(b) He only takes the meat.
(c) He only takes the vegetables.
(d) There is way too much food on his plate.

2. When did the magical dead spots begin appearing?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1998.
(c) 2003.
(d) 2008.

3. What is Baz's stepmother's name?
(a) Daphne.
(b) Doreen.
(c) Cordelia.
(d) Coraline.

4. What are the most powerful kinds of spells in the magical world?
(a) Those cast with another magician.
(b) Those based on nursery rhymes.
(c) Those cast while holding a golden wand.
(d) Those cast on the grounds of Watford.

5. In Chapter 49, what does Agatha tell Simon that really upsets him?
(a) Her mother has forbid Simon from ever coming to their house again.
(b) Her father has told her she has to marry Simon.
(c) She never wants to see him again.
(d) He can not come home with her for Christmas this year.

6. What is it about the Humdrum that surprises Simon in Chapter 71?
(a) It can talk.
(b) It can speak Italian.
(c) It has its own dragon.
(d) It can cast its own spells.

7. What does Simon say he will end up doing for Christmas in Chapter 49?
(a) Going back to the orphanage.
(b) Spending it with the Mage.
(c) Staying at Watford.
(d) Volunteering at a nursing home.

8. What does Simon ask Baz to admit to him in Chapter 48?
(a) That he is a vampire.
(b) That he likes the dark arts.
(c) That Simon is a more powerful magician.
(d) That Fiona tried to kill him.

9. What expression do many of the Mages use to mean surprise or disbelief?
(a) Wandering Wands.
(b) Crowley.
(c) Merciful Mangoes.
(d) Gandalf.

10. Agatha's housekeeper tells her that Lucy Sailsbury went away to which of the following places after finishing at Watford?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Scotland.
(c) Rome.
(d) California.

11. Where is Penny's father's lab in Chapter 59?
(a) In a secure facility.
(b) In the basement of the family home.
(c) At Watford.
(d) In the family home's attic.

12. What does Baz do in the woods that alarms Simon in Chapter 60?
(a) Kills all the birds.
(b) Calls out all the other vampires.
(c) Cuts down all the trees.
(d) Sets fires here and there.

13. What name does no one ever call Baz?
(a) Tyrannus.
(b) Baz.
(c) Basilton.
(d) Pitch.

14. What does sunlight do to Baz?
(a) Burns him.
(b) Melts him.
(c) Warms him.
(d) Makes him shimmer like a diamond.

15. What does Agatha want to do in the end of Chapter 66 that no one else is in favor of?
(a) Go back to the vampire den to compel Nicodemus to tell them who killed Natasha.
(b) Use Baz's connections to weed out the evil people around the Mage.
(c) Use their magic to leave the country.
(d) Tell the Mage what Simon, Baz, and Penny have learned about Natasha Grimm-Pitch and the Humdrum.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Baz's verse to defeat the creature attacking Watford in Chapter 44 based on?

2. According to Penny's father, when did the Humdrum become more powerful?

3. What does Baz tell Simon in Chapter 50 that upsets him?

4. What is Baz's 7 year-old sister's name?

5. What does Penny bring a plate of to Simon and Baz at Baz's house?

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